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 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.