[VietVet]

When I worked as a teacher (tutor), my experience suggested that cursive, the fine motor control and discipline required to learn it, and the visual recognition skills necessary to read it, stimulated the same parts of the brain which enabled abstract thinking. Maybe that is why it is discouraged these days.

[miss marmelstein]

Maybe. But I was no child prodigy and I learned to write after learning to block print. It was hardly brain surgery. Palmer Method!

[henbane]

. . . cursive, the fine motor control and discipline required to learn it, and the visual recognition skills necessary to read it, stimulated the same parts of the brain which enabled abstract thinking.

[GoKnow]

When I worked as a teacher (tutor), my experience suggested that cursive, the fine motor control and discipline required to learn it, and the visual recognition skills necessary to read it, stimulated the same parts of the brain which enabled abstract thinking. Maybe that is why it is discouraged these days.
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Good possibility. Wasn’t Steve Jobs obsessed with calligraphy? That would make your point about fine hand/eye motor control being connected to brain development and abstract thinking.