When a child who can write is confronted with a word which he has to read and interpret, he is silent for some time and usually reads the component...

The hand too, therefore, needs its own preparation. What is needed before one actually writes is to learn writing by means of a series of interesting...

Possession of the art of writing is not a mere skill, it represents the possession of a superior form of language added to its natural form. Written...

It was about six months later that they began to understand what reading meant, and they did so only through associating it with writing. Their eyes...

One day a child began to write. He was so astonished that he shouted aloud, "I've written! I've written!" Other children rushed up to him, full of...

With the profound interest of one who has made a discovery, he had understood that each of these sounds corresponded to a letter of the alphabet...

We do not aim at making a reform in the manner of writing. This would be completely foreign to our goal. We only wish to facilitate writing, no matter...

The most favourable age for the development of written language is that of childhood, about the age of four, when the natural processes connected with...

If writing serves to correct, or rather, to direct and perfect the mechanism of speech in the child, reading assists in the development of ideas and...

...if men had only used speech to communicate their thought, if their wisdom had been expressed in words alone, no traces would remain of past...