They will not be able to read many of the original documents like the Constitution and items like John Adam’s letters to his wife, etc. without cursive. They will have to have them typed-—by a Howard Zinn type. That is the point-—to control all the ideas any child can have and keep them from seeing original documents (so they can be rewritten)—to reshape history (just like in the book, 1984). They will not be able to read letters written by their grandfathers or grandmothers.
They have done massive studies on brain development and tactile memory—using all the senses is essential to integration of both sides of a brain. Like if a baby does not crawl—they have trouble learning to read. They have to have crawling lessons for the 6 year olds to help them “read”.
The body is designed to work correctly with use of all the senses.....in young children and learning includes touch. Even reading, Beck was stating the other day that he had no tactile memory when he “read” books on kindle or whatever, and that he couldn’t remember anything. It was not like when he read hard copies and would know if he read something at the end or beginning, etc.
Pressing buttons does not use as much of the brain as picking up a pencil and shaping letters...etc. That integrates the brain more and stimulates more neuron growth. Computers teach instant gratification and destroy Virtue (Fortitude) and make children lazy and shuts down more of the brain. I just read a book on how technology use literally is reshaping the brain...and not in a “good” way. There is actually less interaction between left and right sides of the brain which eliminates critical thinking.
Kids who are three and been using ipads are incapable of stacking blocks....it is bizarre. Their coordination is not what it should be. Their “Reality” is both dehumanized and denaturalized.
There is a reason why Fortitude is a Virtue and so necessary in overcoming hardships in life. Without Virtue, children will not flourish as they should. All computers and watching TV minimizes the actions in the brain-—where old fashioned “learning” maximizes the neurological growth of the brain and makes people into unique “thinkers” who can deal with the real world and human beings. All of that takes much practice—and interactions with human beings and manipulating small and large muscles. Sitting still is anathema to a young child and unnatural as is staring at machines. It dehumanizes.
It is why Waldorf schools charge $26,000 a year and CEOs of Google send their kids there-—where they have to sign an agreement NOT to allow their children the use of any computers or watch TV until after 13 years or so. There is a huge waiting list for those schools and they are very expensive.
Why are they forcing these addictive machines on the masses even in kindergarten when elite schools don’t allow them? I know why.....and it is to make useful idiots who are lazy and have every idea fed to them so their Worldview is shaped by the Satanists/Atheists. Constant stimulation-—to destroy the reflection needed for Wisdom, and fill the head with White Noise so the kids literally will never be able to process information and be too frustrated to deal with the Great Books and real Knowledge so they are incapable of being brilliant like the Founders and a Free people.
This is a very sad future faced by our children, from not learning to write cursive, and develop their skills in that area.
Sad to think we are dumbing down our society. I think you are right.
Good post. Nice tagline too.
The history of families are handwritten on the flyleaves of Bibles and passed down from one generation to the next. What a pity for many to be unable to continue that tradition.
Beautiful post bump.
No, they won't. You are right.
It reminds me of how the Progressives, at the beginning of the 20th century, gradually convinced everyone that Latin and ancient Greek were "dead" languages and had no place in a modern, democratic curriculum.
That accomplished, no longer would Americans be able to read, in the original, the long 2,500 year history of those ancient civilizations that led to European civilization, the Enlightenment, and, eventually, the United States. Our ties to the past were lost.
Quite by design.