34 Elementary Education in Saxony. carefully; tlie corrections are to be gone through with the whole dass. i. The exercises in Calligrapliy have for objed the acquir einen t of a simple, distinct, good and running liandwriting. In tlie first school-year writing and reading lessons are to be combined ; from the second school-year onwards special lessons with the pen are to be given. In these lessons the letters of the German running hand, and later too of the Latin are to be practised with the aid of copies hanging on the wall, which are carefully explained. These exercises are to follow one another and be com bined in suitable proportions. Exercises in writing strokes for giving freedom and certamty to the hand are to be inserted at suitable stages in the course of the lessons. The instruction is for the most part to be given to ths whole dass together, and with the assistance of countmg. [i. e. The master or one of the pupils counts “ one, two, and all the pupils write together, keeping time with him—