Posted on 12/23/2016 5:03:55 AM PST by Kaslin
Modern educators are dismissive of cursive. Indeed, many are hostile to such a degree that you should immediately suspect that they are up to something.
Here is an education journalist providing the Party Line: "Cursive writing is an anachronism. Spending any classroom time on it is comparable to teaching how to use an abacus: it's interesting as a history lesson, and probably offers some side benefits, but it is not at all practical as a day-to-day skill in the modern, connected world."
A professor of education argues: "Cursive should be allowed to die. In fact, it's already dying, despite having been taught for decades." (You can depend on education professors to confuse "decades" with "centuries.")
When you read such swaggering attacks on cursive, you might assume that the question is settled. The old geezer is dead, so take him off life support. You rarely see thoughtful praise of cursive. Even people who are sentimentally inclined to support cursive can't think of many reasons to do so.
I propose a higher truth: the Education Establishment is always a reliable guide to what is good. If our socialist professors rail against X, you know that X is educational gold. Here are eight reasons why cursive is valuable and we should fight to keep it in the classroom:
1) LEARN TO READ FASTER. The main thing is that learning cursive accelerates learning to read. If it did nothing else, this alone would still make it a huge asset. Cursive obviously makes a child more aware of letter forms and how words are spelled. Don Potter, the phonics guru, states: "Any attempt to educate American children that neglects the direct development of fluent handwriting is doomed to fail. The little dribble of handwriting done with the typical phonics programs is FAR below optimal."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You are not only correct but prescient
more and more everyday on Free Republic, people that can’t write post emoticons
There is something wrong with you.
Yes.
Otherwise, how would you know if they changed it? Why would you trust the RATs not to?
What’s an “emoji”?
What’s an “emoticon”?
I say that it is necessary. How will our dim-bulb non-cursive children KNOW that it’s the “exact same thing”? Because someone in the public school system tells them it is? Who are you going to trust — a union teacher or the original text?
That’s OK, I don’t bother to know who Hollywierd celebretards are either.
“That awful German Language - By Mark Twain”
We have one word “heart” and the Germans have how many words that differentiate between the many meanings of that one word? They seem to do/see things a little different...maybe that’s why their science is/has been numero uno for a long time??
English in the Future
Directors at Daimler Benz and Chrysler have announced an agreement to adopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather than German, which was another possibility.
As part of the negotiations, directors at Chrysler conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and have accepted a five-year phase-in plan. In the first year, “s” will be used instead of the soft “c”. Also, the hard “c” will be replased with “k”. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but komputers have one less letter.
There will be growing kompany enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replased by “f”. This will make words like “fotograf” 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, DaimlerKhrysler akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.
DaimlerKhrysler will enkourage the removal of double letters, whish have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent “e”’s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” by “v”.
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary “o” kan be droped from vords kontaining “o”, and similar shanges vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis, and employes vil find it ezi to kommunikat viz eash ozer.
Ov kors al supliers vil be expekted to us zis for all busines komunikation via DaimlerKhrysler.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
Kan U kal mee on my fone?....LOL....
Das ist gut..
Unless you can read and understand ancient Greek and the idioms of the day based on Jewish religion; a person is 'trusting' their soul to some old dudes who TRANSLATED the bible into modern day English.
Good luck and have a Merry Christmas...
Before I retired, I tutored students who were having trouble at school, and worked as part of a team developing standard tests using written answers (instead of multiple choice). I observed that there was a distinct correlation between the scores and the use of cursive. Students who used cursive wrote longer answers, better thought-out answers, more correct answers; and the better the handwriting, the better the answers. I came to the inference that learning and practicing cursive developed fine motor skills, and that developing fine motor skills developed critical thinking skills. I didn’t get a chance to develop a study designed to test this hypothesis, however.
‘bout the only thing I write cursive is my signature.
I like being able to read; a few days later; what I was thinking when I wrote it!
I’ve seen numerous versions-the first an email supposedly from an Ivy League school. This was just the first one that came up on a search. Thanks for the link. I don’t think I’ve seen the original before.
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