CORRESPONDENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19049, 30 June 1924, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE

SCRIPT WRITING. (To the Editor.) Sir. —Perhaps you will allow me to reply to your remarks about script writing. May I say first that your article has quite missed the point of the new movement. It is not intended to teach script instead of running hand, but to teach it as a means to running hand. Having como lately from England I can testify to the great spread of the new method in the schools there. I am a convert to it myself, having distrusted it at first, until I saw some of the results. It may seem incredible, but experiments in London and elsewhere have shown that script writers are slightly quicker, on the average, than ordinary writers. But the chief point is that of legibility and beauty. None who has ever seen a set of children’s exercises written in the old running hand could by any stretch of the imagination call it beautiful, or, in the majority of cases, legible. Script is always legible and often beautiful. Moreover—and here is an important point—when children get to the age of J 3 or 14 their script characters begin to link up, and a legible and often bcautful running hand is the result. Let those who oppose this movement because it is new see the results for themselves —they will no longer oppose. —I am, etc., F. E. MORETON, Friends’ School.