PRINT AND SCRIPT

Southland Times, Issue 19277, 23 June 1924, Page 7

PRINT AND SCRIPT

AN INSPECTOR’S OPINION. An interesting report on script printing and writing in primary schools was submitted to the Auckland Education Board on Wednesday by the senior inspector. The report stated that the younger pupils readily took to the new style, and soon wrote it with ease. They were thus able to use handwriting as an instrument of expression at an earlier stage. “My view in regard to the work of tine infant teachers,” stated the inspector, “is that they should train, the child’s hands to write, not train them to write a hand. In higher classes the teacher must have regard to the demands of ordinary commercial requirements, and as the business man prefers a cursive handwriting, the pupils require to be equipped to meet this preference, hence in the standard classes script print should become a cursive hand, the print being reserved for special work, such as mapping. If this system were followed, a fine style of writing would be acquired.