My mom made me take typing (a guy, in High School). Mom and pop business - and dad didn’t type! After I started working I told her how much I appreciated her for making me take it, lots of report writing, etc.
She was also great with English and grammar. In my box of keepsakes I have a copy of a letter that was written to them from the newspaper asking them to place an ad in the paper.
All of the errors (a bunch!) were circled and corrected by my mom. She sent it back to the paper with a note at the bottom saying something like “Why would I want to place an advertisement in your paper?”
I taught myself to type as a young boy using an old manual typewriter. In High School I went to the typing class and found out my typing was better than the teachers. So I took a different class.