Psychology and Pedagogy of Writing

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The art of writing is as old as civilization itself; it is thought probable that in North Babylonia the pictograph stage had long been passed eight thousand years ago. We are told that seven thousand years ago in Egypt, Babylonia and Crete both reading and writing were already of hoary antiquity. The written word has always been of mysterious significance to the savage. Among such people, the person who could use symbols for communication was next to the gods; hence written language ministered to forms of wor ship and remained in the hands of the church. In this way the currency of civilization and learning became written language; consequently the reverenced part of education has not been the sciences as first hand studies of reality.