Posted on 12/23/2016 5:03:55 AM PST by Kaslin
I am always impressed with the lost skills.
You said it.
Really? Do you sign your name in block letters?
News such as that (and not having to deal with such snowflakes) takes a bit of the sting out of aging, ya know ?!
Back in the day there was a concensus amongst most all us carpenters that architectural students' mandatory first year should be spent working on a construction crew.
I remember my mother telling me that they used to teach the Suetterlin Schrift the entire time she went to school. They must have taught Latin handwriting too, as she had a very neat handwriting skill
Everything could be filled with errors and missing punction no matter whether it’s written in cursive or typed on a computer. And writing by hand does not have spell Check.
I agree with the educational establishment.
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Seriously, doesn’t that make you question your position?
Is that the KJV version of the Constitution? ;)
Times change. “We’ve always done it that way,” is the foot-dragging response of Neo-Luddites. There are reasons we don’t teach slide rule calculating any more. My cursive is virtually unreadable, even to me: Fugeddaboudit.
Heh, went back and re-read my post and I mangled my response...just to be clear, I agree with you...I think cursive would be much faster.
“Spending any classroom time on it is comparable to teaching how to use an abacus...”
We learned math in the first grade with an abacus. Learned 1’s, 10’s 100’s, etc. Now, you SOBs have students counting on their fingers—and they can’t get past ten. So FU.
I found this Here you can learn Suetterlin - the "German handwriting"
Ban it and every school child will want to learn it.
I am also a genealogist. Reading cursive is a great advantage if you are a researcher in any historical documents.
Reading old German documents is another matter. The older Gothic script is nearly unreadable to modern Germans. I can make out some of it but only because I had a serious need to translate the documents.
Still cursive is important in the same way as learning another language skill. It expands your knowledge and analytic skills.
I found this Here you can learn Suetterlin - the "German handwriting"
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They aren’t lost....just dormant. I suspect there are some purist hobbyists out there who could approach that.
Excellent points. All of them
My cursive might as well be a doctor’s prescription - been printing for decades so others (and sometimes myself) can read it. I still hate to see it go but can understand that it is no longer a prevalent mode of written communication in today’s world.
Lost in the cultural sense, not in the literal one. My grandfather was an ornamental plasterer; while there are a handful of individuals still capable of doing that work, it is very rare. Our society, as a whole, doesn’t value workmanship, nor do many have the discipline required to attain such skills.
Bingo!
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