Here is what my handwriting font looks like compared to the real thing:
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 ...
My SIL homeschools her three boys. She didn’t see why there’s such a fuss about cursive, and was OK with printing.
I told her that if the education system can keep kids ignorant about cursive, then future generations won’t be able to read the founding documents. It didn’t take her two seconds to change her mind.
The same argument leftist use against coal.
So practice some educational jiu-jitsu.
Don’t call it cursive, call it calligraphy. Teach it as art. Actually introduce the kids to some the different typefaces. Have them READ ALOUD from short texts written in each form (very easy with computer fonts). Then have them master actually writing the alphabet in a select few fonts. Of course, the teachers would have to master the same skills.
But how can they argue with teaching art????
Never thought about it. All good arguments.
Us old folks will soon have a secret code.
Time spent teaching keyboard usage is better than cursive writing...
Until an EMP attack destroys all forms of digital expression.
Here is what my handwriting font looks like compared to the real thing:
Lefties I think suffered the most because they were taught writing backwards. And if you were doing it in ink your sleeve always drug through it
The next one are examples of the alphabet difference
That is your opinion
Oh but it does..the fact that you use technology does not mean that technology will always be available.
The underground in the Soviet Union produced many articles and sines by hand....including cursive
From this handwriting, I’d say the individual is very image-conscious and grand, but also impatient with small details and somewhat closed and pinched in his thinking. A lover of the big public gesture, leave the groundwork to others, he ain’t got time fo’ dat. Also, whenever I see spidery looking handwriting such as this, I have to wonder about overall mental stability, no idea why but it crops up often enough to be a trend.
Sounds about right for Freud.
The reason why some where awful was because of the writers handwriting. I have a good handwriting skill, but my hand printing is awful
To me, cursive is like art and physical education...some appreciate it, some don’t. But both add a layer to a child’s experience.
See post 66
Sorry that should have been post 89
Zander-Bloser all the way!
Your second grade teacher was correct. You can write faster in cursive, than in print.
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