I think there's more to this than we understand. I had a trainer who was a handwriting analysis expert. You really would not believe what he could see with a couple of sentences written on a napkin. I saw him read people a dozen times to a jaw-dropping level. You just wouldn't believe it. If handwriting analysis can reveal an unbelievable amount of information about a person's character, desires, psyche, even past physical injuries... perhaps it could be true that cursive COULD do something for the brain, and learning specific ways of writing cursive could develop different attributes. Not the craziest thing I've heard that turned out to be true. I have a book called "Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life" by Vimala Rodgers. Interesting, is all I'm saying.
Thank you for your comments...I had never heard of that book but it does seem to be a more complex issue than many believe. It really is quite interesting...I agree...
I type around 172 WPM on my personal keyboard (reds), but I think much faster and I think too many things simultaneously to be able to type that fast, haha.
It is true that people are not learning to think, and the philosophy taught nowadays is a pale imitation of what it's supposed to be -- for malicious reasons no less.
At the least, cursive teaches discipline of thought and speech. When I type I'm in a hurry to get words on a page with the understanding that I can go back to edit at anytime.
Pen on paper forces an economy of expression. No one would present a poem to a lover with words scribbled out and with arrows and editing marks on it. Errors of thought or expression require the work of additional drafts to present a document that others take seriously. It's better to try to get it right the first time.
Many who type do try to edit their writing, but most probably don't, as evidenced by the verbal diarrhea on social media.
Just from personal experience, writing something down, cursive or printing, helps me to remember it. My cursive is more legible than my printing just because we were made to practice it in grammar school until we got it right. The letters were always hung up around the classroom.
Considering the world as it is now, I will say, the most valuable course I had in high school was typing.
I am probably inclined to agree. Any benefit to training cursive would likely result from learning different languages and applying them as well.
It kind of comes across as an excuse to learn cursive as tradition dictates as well as to fully comprehend the Constitution and such, but I don't know that we need an excuse for those things.
It does help one master micro muscle movements. I heard that those who didn't learn to write cursive lack the muscle control to manipulate a small screw, like for eye glasses or some such.
I think there's more to this than we understand. I had a trainer who was a handwriting analysis expert. You really would not believe what he could see with a couple of sentences written on a napkin. I saw him read people a dozen times to a jaw-dropping level. You just wouldn't believe it. If handwriting analysis can reveal an unbelievable amount of information about a person's character, desires, psyche, even past physical injuries... perhaps it could be true that cursive COULD do something for the brain, and learning specific ways of writing cursive could develop different attributes. Not the craziest thing I've heard that turned out to be true. I have a book called "Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life" by Vimala Rodgers. Interesting, is all I'm saying.
Thank you for your comments...I had never heard of that book but it does seem to be a more complex issue than many believe. It really is quite interesting...I agree...
I type around 172 WPM on my personal keyboard (reds), but I think much faster and I think too many things simultaneously to be able to type that fast, haha.
It is true that people are not learning to think, and the philosophy taught nowadays is a pale imitation of what it's supposed to be -- for malicious reasons no less.
At the least, cursive teaches discipline of thought and speech. When I type I'm in a hurry to get words on a page with the understanding that I can go back to edit at anytime.
Pen on paper forces an economy of expression. No one would present a poem to a lover with words scribbled out and with arrows and editing marks on it. Errors of thought or expression require the work of additional drafts to present a document that others take seriously. It's better to try to get it right the first time.
Many who type do try to edit their writing, but most probably don't, as evidenced by the verbal diarrhea on social media.
Just from personal experience, writing something down, cursive or printing, helps me to remember it. My cursive is more legible than my printing just because we were made to practice it in grammar school until we got it right. The letters were always hung up around the classroom.
Considering the world as it is now, I will say, the most valuable course I had in high school was typing.
I am probably inclined to agree. Any benefit to training cursive would likely result from learning different languages and applying them as well.
It kind of comes across as an excuse to learn cursive as tradition dictates as well as to fully comprehend the Constitution and such, but I don't know that we need an excuse for those things.
It does help one master micro muscle movements. I heard that those who didn't learn to write cursive lack the muscle control to manipulate a small screw, like for eye glasses or some such.
Or financial education.
Schools need analytical thought and financial education.