This was not the case when Spencerian and earlier achievable hands were taught. This has been going on for so many years, people now believe that inventing their own style of handwriting is the normal course of events.
Because it is not designed to be written with any speed, once "learned" it must be modified over the course of many years in order to make it workable. Secretaries of the day worked as hard to produce a correct Palmer hand as business students do today to learn shorthand. The Palmer Method of Business Writing was designed to be legible, not easy to write. Now that Palmer and its derivatives have been taught almost exclusively for 80 years or more, no one writes it as it is taught, and poor handwriting is widespread. Between 19 the Palmer Method began to dominate handwriting instruction in this country, and we date the start of the decline of handwriting from that time. For the most part, they wrote a Spencerian hand just like they were taught in the handwriting textbooks of their day. Would you give us some history as to how this came about?īruce Smith, Ph.D.: Most Americans who learned to write before the 1920s could write beautifully. After two years of research and development we presented it to the homeschool community and it was an instant success. This convinced me that there ought to be a way to create a workable handwriting method for today's writers. Interview by Martha Robinson.īruce Smith, Ph.D.: I had discovered Spencerian handwriting in my undergraduate history research, and learned to write it from an old textbook. More information on SmithHand Handwriting Kits is available on the SmithHand website. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American history at Indiana University in 1975, a Master's degree at Notre Dame in 1987, and a doctorate in American history at Notre Dame in 1991.Īn enthusiastic advocate of home schooling, he lives in Michigan's upper peninsula with his wife Natasha. 2001īruce Smith, Ph.D., creator of the SmithHand Writing Method, taught in a public high school, then served as a college professor in both public and private institutions of higher learning.
Developing Elegant, But Practical Handwriting An Interview with Bruce Smith, Ph.D. Interviews may or may not reflect the opinions and beliefs of the management of.
It was gradually replaced in primary schools with the simpler Palmer Method developed by Austin Norman Palmer.All information is presented to stimulate thought and assist Christian families in homeschooling their children. The text in Ford Motor Company's logo is written in Spencerian script, as is the Coca-Cola logo. Spencerian script became the standard across the United States and remained so until the 1920s when the spreading popularity of the typewriter rendered its use as a prime method of business communication obsolete. This they did by distributing Spencer's previously unpublished book, Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship, in 1866. Spencer never saw the great success that his penmanship style enjoyed because he died in 1864, but his sons took upon themselves the mission of bringing their late father's dream to fruition.
He quickly turned out graduates who left his school to start replicas of it abroad, and Spencerian Script thus began to reach the common schools. Spencerian script was developed in 1840, and began soon after to be taught in the school Spencer established specifically for that purpose. Platt Rogers Spencer, whose name the style bears, used various existing scripts as inspiration to develop a unique oval-based penmanship style that could be written very quickly and legibly to aid in matters of business correspondence as well as elegant personal letter-writing. Spencerian script is a script style that was used in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1925 and was considered the American de facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter. American business handwriting style Enduring example, twenty years after Platt Rogers Spencer's death, of Spencerian script from 1884 from the Gem City Business College of Quincy, Illinois
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