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Letter: Visual illiteracy

Michael Harvey
Wednesday 12 June 1996 23:02 BST
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Sir: Both Ken Welsby (Letters, 6 June) and John Fairbank (Letters, 11 June) miss an important point about the teaching of handwriting. Learning to write brings with it an appreciation of those fundamentals of the visual world: line, form, space and pattern. The visual illiteracy of the average person today may be partly due to not having learnt to write decently.

MICHAEL HARVEY

Bridport,

Dorset

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