Individuality was to be expressed within standardized forms, a paradox which is indicative of differing epistemological views existing in America during this period. The Palmer Method can be analyzed both in terms of individual expression as well as the regulation of expression as a method by which both the self and the social self were defined and controlled. Friedrich Kittler argues that "our writing tools also work on our thoughts" (183), and this method can be seen as a result of, as well as a contributor to pragmatic and functionalist approaches to education. As a cultural practice, handwriting carries with it cultural messages transmitted through the training of penmanship and through the idealized letterforms to be emulated (xii). ![]() ![]() ![]() Tamara Thornton, author of Handwriting in America (1996) argues that handwriting has a "history of its own," yet one shaped by the cultural within socio-historical periods (xi).
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