Regarding Heber J. Grants penmanship As a youth, President Heber J. Grants penmanship was so poor that when two of his friends looked at it, one said to the other, 'That writing looks like hen tracks.' 'No,' said the other, 'it looks as if lightning has struck an ink bottle.' This, of course, touched Heber Grants pride, and he worked so diligently, so hard on it, that, while still in his teens and working as a policy clerk in the office of H. R. Mann and Co., he was offered three times his salary to go to San Francisco as a penman. He later became a teacher of penmanship and bookkeeping at the University of Deseret. In fact, with a specimen he had written before he turned seventeen, he took first prize in a territorial fair against four professional penmen.
Quotes about penmanship (4 Quotes)
We are not neglecting penmanship, but we have prioritized it in its proper order in the big picture of literacy. If we are in school for six or seven hours a day, it can't be an hour.
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.