PRINT WRITING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 145, 20 June 1923, Page 5

PRINT WRITING.

» TO STAY IN THE SCHOOLS. ''The art of handwriting is going; the writing to-day is not nearly so pood as it was thirty years ago," declared Mr. Brownlee at the Education Board meeting to-day, when he was criticising t house of print writing in the Auckland district schools. Mr. Brrnvnlee stated that despite the Senior Inspector's approval of print writing, the system did not appeal to him, and by teaching the children to print, the schools were raiding a generation who would later In , unable to write. If the same attention wcu paid to ordinary cursive writing as had been given to print writing, he felt the results would be more profitable. Messrs. King and Boddie remarked that the typewriter wae largely responsible for present day degeneration in handwriting in business circles, but they and others intimated that the inspector's report, and the special attention directed to the question, had satisfied them. After the Senior Inspector had added to his report, stating that print writing had won him over from opposition and that he had been satisfied of its v-alue, the Board received his report and decided not to interfere with the optional use in the schools of print writing, *