Education is for free men, while mere training is for slaves. Those with the ability to read, think and communicate offline maintain the spark of liberty that cannot be threatened by lack of access to the hive. Banishing cursive is just one more tool to enforce a Utilitarian State in which individuals have no intrinsic worth apart from their material usefulness to the State.
The ability to quickly reuse the type over and over again sped the flow of information much like the web has.
Even though we've had no problems with cursive up until now, when we DID have a firm grasp on it most every store sign was written in block letters.
Every newspaper published is in block letters - every book.
Typewriters took over the; shall I say; arduous task placing the boss' words onto paper.
Accurate information transmission needs a consistency about it that cursive just cannot provide.
Cursive...
Learn it?
Yes.
An end-all and be-all?
No.