Emphasis Preaching Journal

Mitchell Bronk tells of his experience in learning to write when he was a student in elementary school. He had to practice penmanship in copybooks, and described his experience in this way: "A beautifully engraved pattern of the letters at the top of every page guided us, but each succeeding line we wrote became progressively less attractive. Then the school board purchased new books, designed so that the pattern line at the top could be pushed down the page. But it was always directly before the pupil and covered what he had just written, the improvement in our penmanship was amazing."