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As soon as the child has begun to know the
shapes of the various letters, it will be no bad thing
to have them cut as accurately as possible upon a
[p. 35]
board, so that the pen may be guided along the
grooves. Thus mistakes such as occur with wax
tablets will be rendered impossible; for the pen
will be confined between the edges of the letters
and will be prevented from going astray. Further
by increasing the frequency and speed with which
they follow these fixed outlines we shall give steadiness to the fingers, and there will be no need to
guide the child's hand with our own.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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