Posted on 12/10/2006 7:25:03 AM PST by RayChuang88
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) - In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one Scottish school has returned to basics. It's teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen.
There is no clacking of keyboards in most classrooms at the Mary Erskine and Stewart's Melville Junior School, although there is a full range of facilities for computer lessons and technology isn't being ignored.
But the private school's principal believes the old-fashioned pens have helped boost the academic performance and self-esteem of his 1,200 pupils.
"The pens improve the quality of work because they force the children to take care, and better work improves self-esteem," principal Bryan Lewis said. "Proper handwriting is as relevant today as it ever has been."
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I'd rather write with a top-notch fine-point ballpoint pen instead!
I'm like Charlie Brown with any kind of ink pen. If I write with one I screw up!
If you want to improve a young mans self-esteem, teach him marksmanship.
If he can keep them in the 10 ring at 100 yards that boy will have self-esteem and self discipline to spare.
I like to use these pens. They're ball point, non-smear gel ink retractables that look good and have a fat rubber grip:
How would this story have been recieved if the principal insisted on goose quills? The point is, times change. Sometimes a change is actually progress. Flick your Bic, man!
ping
How refreshing to read something like this in a world of people that think self-esteem doesn't need to be earned.
You mean I can't buy it? What was I thinking?
Speaking of self-esteem, your tag line is making me feel bad. Please change it.
Better now?
ROTFL. Yep.
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