Word: penmanship
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When eleven-year-old Roscoe McGeorge refused to stop playing with cards in the back row of a fourth-grade penmanship class in Cincinnati's Washington Elementary School. Teacher Gayle Graner decided to take appropriate action. She told him to turn over and gave him a paddling. Roscoe's outraged mother had her arrested for assault and battery, but 22-year-old Teacher Graner, though less than a year out of the University of Cincinnati's Teachers College, is not one to be easily intimidated. "Yes. I paddled him," she told reporters. "I have firm ideas...
...Penmanship Grade...
...good a teacher as the Exeter faculty member with ten or twenty years experience. He is likely to conclude from this that this graduate student can teach him nothing. He also notices that his grades are not consistently related to any observable quality of his work except penmanship. He therefore concludes that these grades are meaningless and arbitrary. Both theories contain just enough truth to make them a useful raft for his sinking self confidence...
Richard M. Fink, teaching fellow in Government and in General Education called the handwriting on some exams "abominable" but noted that "penmanship is a lost art anyway." He said that one student had to read his exam...
...noble art of penmanship, one of the highest artistic expressions of civilized humanity, has been suffering a gradual decline over the last few thousand years. First came the adoption of a standardized alphabet by the pedantic ancients. Then there was the invention of the printing press, by the notorious Gutenberg. Finally, only ninety years ago, those three men in Milwaukee devised the infamous typewriter...