Northrup, a retired English teacher in Rochester New York, who this week won the World Handwriting Contest. These ruminations were inspired tonight by David M. Ultimately, isn't this why we have hundreds of typefaces? Mercifully, Palmer died and went to heaven so that the richness of life and history and (hand)writing can survive. It took two generations to kill the legacy of Austin Palmer as a result, my son's handwriting resembles nothing but his own gestural impulses.
The Palmer Method prevailed in the twentieth century throughout the American school system, not only as a way to teach penmanship, but as a method to ensure that all students would write the same.
Source: Mike Sull's Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship By 1927, the year that Palmer died, 27 million Americans had learned the Palmer Method. There need not be confusion in the world because of a messy scrawl! The Palmer Method of Business Writing sold one million copies in 1912.
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"The most swift and tireless penmen appeared to keep the arm on the desk at all times and formed their letters with little or no motion of the fingers a free and tireless style of penmanship." Palmer realized that his "muscular movement writing" was something that could be taught and that advertising his "system" could help him to change the world that everyone's handwriting could be efficiently executed while basically looking the same. While working for the Iowa Railroad Land Company in the 1880s, he observed that clerks doing ornamental penmenship "flourished all capitals with a free-arm swing, with the arm completely off the desk." They used an entirely different movement to write normally. In America, the idea of a prescribed form of handwriting was championed by Austin Palmer over a century ago. The assumption, of course, is that every hand is different, every stroke the sign of an individual's quirks and personality. Reading handwriting is an old art: graphology is one of the more articulated forms of divination, and handwriting analysis has long had the trappings of a science with its history and court experts. Will Malcolm be good with his hands? Will his math skills lead him into science? Will his argumentative personality make him a championship debater? Will he follow his parents into design? Will he be happy? Every time I look at my son's handwriting, I find myself prognosticating about his future.
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