Posted on 06/15/2017 5:23:30 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
He may be retiring from public life but Prince Philip has shown he has no intention of holding back on his trademark honesty in the meantime. During a visit to a primary school in east London the Duke of Edinburgh left one teacher feeling a little flustered as he criticised the state of pupils' handwriting. He and the Queen were at Upper North Street School, in Poplar, to mark 100 years since innocent children were killed when a WWI bomb hit the site.
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Love the guy. He is all the time saying some politically incorrect thing.
He’s criticizing the teacher, not the students. He’s asking if they teach certain things. I’m not going to get bent out of shape about him giving an honest assessment of someone’s handwriting. Kids need to learn to take constructive, honest criticism. Especially in school. If they can’t, God help them when they actually have to perform in the work world.
Leftists won’t have survived Prince Philip in his younger days.
I’m afraid that old-fashioned cursive writing is fast becoming a thing of the past. My father and grandmother both had beautiful Spencerian penmanship; and I think it was a useful kind of training, far beyond the obvious value of penmanship, for kids.
But I think it’s gone; unless there is some kind of cultural revival.
And he failed.
The guy’s right. ;
He speaks how the older generation used to speak, and can put people into their places.
I wish we had never had the anoint of cowards we do to day who bow to PC as the west would be a much better place, and we would not face the crap we do today like cross dressing, homosexuals thinking they are married, refugees, bad teaching, no go muslim areas.
I was taught the Palmer method of cursive writing and won the penmanship award in Mrs. Skull’s 5th grade.
But I didn’t like the Q, S and Z, used printing letters after we went our separate ways and made the rest more economical. IOW, I got lazy.
Oh that will bring down the nut jobs
The generation between 12- 30 in the USA public schools are known b their serious lack of penmanship, a lost art that is not taught at all. RWIW My Southern grand children can write fairly legible cursive...my north eastern grandchildren both write a most legible print and a fairly legible cursive.
I never really learned cursive. I was put in an advanced class after the second grade, where the teacher seemed surprised that we younger ones hadn’t learned any cursive yet. She pronounced that we’d just have to ‘pick it up’ - and my handwriting has forever been a weird combination of printing and cursive.
What strikes me is that even when my dad and his mother were very old and ‘rickety’, their handwriting was still artful. And I do think that the discipline and concentration that kids develop by learning those techniques have many benefits beyond just beautiful handwriting.
I wonder if they'll come a day when there's no one left to read our archived documents, which are all in longhand. There's times I wish I could read Latin, Old English, etc. It would be nice to be able to read online documents/books in those formats.
We were taught cursive in the 3rd grade. We were taught printing in the first. We referred to what is now called cursive as “real writing”.
I have never had good penmanship but it is not the fault of the teachers. I just don’t have that talent. If I concentrate and write slowly, I can do OK. If in a hurry it is barely legible.
My Dr. who is a Harvard grad has terrible handwriting. I sometimes wonder how the pharmacist can read his prescriptions.
I studied Spanish intensively in school, and French very basically; and even though I’m very unpracticed now, I’ve found those experiences very useful to deciphering other written Romance languages.
But Latin is at the root of them all. If you learn some Latin, you’ll be on the way to learning the others more easily.
(I’ve known scientists who can read studies in German or Dutch enough to understand the gist, even though they can’t speak the language, or understand it spoken.)
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