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Or at least that is what it was called back then. It was a seventh-grade class, which would have been in about 1964. We used manual typewriters and learned the mechanics about how to construct a letter and other business/personal correspondences. However, the most valuable skill I learned in that class was what is now commonly referred to as "keyboarding" or "touch typing". That skill carried me through my masters degree and served me well in my career in the space program. If asked, it would be the one class that I would recommend every person take sometime in their academic career, hopefully early in it.
Typing, for the same reason you mentioned, or shop, because I gained an understanding of how things are made and how parts go together. Both have these have stood me well in my profession, from the amount of computer keyboarding I have done to working with the skilled craft workforce to implement new concepts.
It was high school elective that was essentially a critical thinking class. It taught us how identify credible sources of knowledge versus biased and/or garbage sources and how to effectively and efficiently research topics using those tools of discernment. Probably should have been a graduation requirement for the whole school...
Though, TBH, typing was probably a close second - especially given we had to learn on those old typewriters too! I SO appreciate spell check and the delete button as a result!
Between 1st and 8th grade i took this all-discipline-encompassing science class that was compulsory and taught with the frequency and seriousness that math is taught with at most schools. Four periods a week for 8 years and i can safely say it has been the most useful subject i have ever learned.
Or at least that is what it was called back then. It was a seventh-grade class, which would have been in about 1964. We used manual typewriters and learned the mechanics about how to construct a letter and other business/personal correspondences. However, the most valuable skill I learned in that class was what is now commonly referred to as "keyboarding" or "touch typing". That skill carried me through my masters degree and served me well in my career in the space program. If asked, it would be the one class that I would recommend every person take sometime in their academic career, hopefully early in it.
This is my biggest educational regret. I did not take typing - because I was afraid I would not make an A in it!
[I actually wrote all of my papers by hand, all the way through college, including real footnotes. Fortunately, my handwriting was very legible. Not a single professor ever asked me to get a paper typed.]
Most valuable? I cannot pick one.
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