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I don't have great writing but being able to sign your own name is part of your identity. You can personalize it so it's your own. Look at the famous signature of John Hancock. I was looking at some old books I had as a teenager and sure enough, that's my name inside the front cover. That IS my handwriting that I changed enough so that it was my own style. I wrote that.
Lots of times you want to tell who wrote something and you can tell by the writing. No two people write exactly the same.
Another thing: I scribble notes to myself or quick shopping lists much more easily by grabbing the pen and paper than getting my phone out and typing it. And I can pin the note somewhere so that someone can see it. I can even stick the note of the front of the fridge. Well, I guess you could print the note in block letters too. Scribbling it in writing is so much easier and faster though.
Lots of times you want to tell who wrote something and you can tell by the writing. No two people write exactly the same.
It may be that the forced elimination of writing (cursive) is all part of a grand design to make everyone indistinguishable. And dumber. If you can't write, only type or block print, your humanity is lessened. You have no individual identity that is carried with you, and transmitted.
If you can't read writing, you can't read the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights, or the declaration of Independence.
It’s pathetic when young people can’t even sign their name to a check. Writing in cursive is an important skill that doesn’t take too long to master. If schools won’t teach it, then parents (and grandparents) need to step up and help those children.
I've never signed a check and I was taught cursive a long time ago.
"Being able able to right your own signature" is pretty hilarious, considering most people have signatures that are barely legible.
I've never signed a check and I was taught cursive a long time ago.
"Being able able to right your own signature" is pretty hilarious, considering most people have signatures that are barely legible.
Cursive is generally a useless skill.
Its useless to the person or subject that has no point of reference ( skills) to comprehend. Basically knowledge is power.
While some famous doctors and even actors have script challenges, they still understand the concept of script writing. Knowledge is power.
My granddaughter only took up cursive ( she is ten) when she heard her father talk about it. He was telling a family story that to this day brings a laugh. And yes it involved cursive writing.
Course my grand daughter also has a propensity to dig into history and she found out how important the reading along with writing in cursive was to her studies.
Its useless to the person or subject that has no point of reference ( skills) to comprehend.
It's useless in general. Again a signature is barely legible.
Not all knowledge is power, especially cursive. I don't recall taking any mandatory cursive classes for my STEM college degree. I do recall all my research papers being typed via Microsoft Word.
Useless knowledge is not power. We have email now, I have no use to write a letter (or anything else) in cursive.
I can’t remember what grade/s I learned cursive other than it was in elementary school. I practiced enough I know that but some of my school mates had much better penmanship than I did. I get compliments even now but I still think theirs was so much better.
It's useless in general. Again a signature is barely legible.
Not all knowledge is power, especially cursive. I don't recall taking any mandatory cursive classes for my STEM college degree. I do recall all my research papers being typed via Microsoft Word.
Useless knowledge is not power. We have email now, I have no use to write a letter (or anything else) in cursive.
It's not the knowledge (ask me how many times I've used my aeronautics engineering knowledge since I left the Navy almost forty years ago) but the brain development that learning cursive facilitates (I already posted a couple links to studies). It's especially noticeable in long term and working memory, short term memory looks to be a wash.
When dealing with dyslexic kids and writing one of the techniques used is "Trace, Copy, Recall" not "Look, Type, Try to Remember".
I've found that even now, at 68, that I don't spell nearly as well typing as I did when I wrote more. Even here I had to go back and edit because I repeated a couple word, something that never happened writing.
Anyone ever come across their parents old HS yearbooks and tried to read some of the handwritten notes that their fellow or possibly ex girlfriends wrote? Curiosity. It can make you wish you were able to read it. Nope can’t ask your parents anymore either. After a year goes by, you’re back to wondering again. I suppose that’s never happened to anyone here thus far that’s hate on the idea of knowing cursive writing, that is now almost looking like knowing hieroglyphics. Ok, that’s only one instance. Some day something like that could happen to you.
My Dad often wrote letters to my Mom while he was in the Marines. My Mom saved them, of course. I’ve seen the box at one time but have no idea where it is now. Both of them have passed away. House since sold. Those letters could have been a source of comfort to this day even. coming to terms knowing you’re the only one left from your immediate family. Other distant family members have family’s of their own.
It's useless in general. Again a signature is barely legible.
Not all knowledge is power, especially cursive. I don't recall taking any mandatory cursive classes for my STEM college degree. I do recall all my research papers being typed via Microsoft Word.
Useless knowledge is not power. We have email now, I have no use to write a letter (or anything else) in cursive.
It's not the knowledge (ask me how many times I've used my aeronautics engineering knowledge since I left the Navy almost forty years ago) but the brain development that learning cursive facilitates (I already posted a couple links to studies). It's especially noticeable in long term and working memory, short term memory looks to be a wash.
When dealing with dyslexic kids and writing one of the techniques used is "Trace, Copy, Recall" not "Look, Type, Try to Remember".
I've found that even now, at 68, that I don't spell nearly as well typing as I did when I wrote more. Even here I had to go back and edit because I repeated a couple word, something that never happened writing.
You can develop the brain in other ways. For example, I took Suzuki violin starting at age 4 or 5 and have excellent long-term memory from that. When taking piano lessons, the teacher I had would often comment how annoying it was that I’d remember a song how I heard it on the very first try. One of the key tenets of Suzuki was that once you learned a song, you had to remember it and play it over and over during the group lessons we had on a regular basis. A lot of that learning was passive. I’d wake up in the morning and turn on my tape of songs I needed to remember while I was getting ready.
Again, you can trace, copy, and recall using print. I can’t recall ever writing in cursive after I taught it, but my spelling is excellent. I don’t think it has fulfilled any use to me in my daily life that I haven’t gotten from print. As a kid, I loved writing letters and also did a lot of other hand writing. I haven’t seen any tangible benefit from having to learn and drill cursive for 30 minutes a day. We had plenty of spelling assignments of writing words out where I was able to do this without issue using print. I remember that in middle school, a couple of us would work on writing as tiny words as possible legibly. That was actually kind of fun and the few of us who did it really enjoyed it.
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coming to terms knowing you’re the only one left from your immediate family. Other distant family members have family’s of their own.
