Excerpt from Thought and Expression: Or the Child's First Book Written Language True, many learn a school penmanship and a school read ing, or in the technical sense learn to read and Write. But, whatever may be said of the reading, the writing is not introduced with any immediate reference to thought, but as an art of itself. It is usually begun some time after the child has learned to read and spell; it is then taught as the art of making letters and putting them together, not as the art of expressing thought. Hence it takes on that peculiar style which the taste of the teacher or the rules of the art may determine. It is totally unlike that which the muscles form when under the influence of thought - that which gives a personal character to the handwriting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.