Summing up, we may say that the two mechanical factors of writing are resolved into two independent exercises, that is, drawing, which gives the hand...

Now the hand can be prepared directly to trace the signs of the alphabet by the help of the tactile and muscular senses, not by that of sight. We have...

When a teacher has a child see and touch the letters of the alphabet, three sensations come into play simultaneously: sight, touch, and kinaesthetic...

Touching the letters as if they were being written initiates the muscular training that prepares for writing.

When the child pronounces the sounds of the consonants he experiences an obvious pleasure. This series of sounds so varied and so well known, which...

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...