Why the Education Establishment Hates Cursive

American Thinker ^ | December 23, 2016 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[MayflowerMadam]

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.

[Oratam]

The same argument leftist use against coal.

[Wonder Warthog]

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????

[LS]

Never thought about it. All good arguments.

[Oldexpat]

Us old folks will soon have a secret code.

[Dixie Yooper]

No, I'm a righty by hand and politics.

[CARTOUCHE]

Time spent teaching keyboard usage is better than cursive writing...

Until an EMP attack destroys all forms of digital expression.

[rlmorel]

Right. That was what the other poster had said, and I thought about it and agreed. I can easily see how you could write faster, block printing...that is why I love having a font, because I can type really fast!

Here is what my handwriting font looks like compared to the real thing:

[Nifster]

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

[Kaslin]

Just imagine if they had to read this which is an example of Dr Freud's handwriting which is in the German font

The next one are examples of the alphabet difference

[DuncanWaring]

I recently met a college professor who teaches engineering who says he's encountering students who have never used a screwdriver.

[Kaslin]

That is your opinion

[Nifster]

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

[RegulatorCountry]

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.

[Kaslin]

The reason why some where awful was because of the writers handwriting. I have a good handwriting skill, but my hand printing is awful

[goodnesswins]

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.

[Nifster]

See post 66

[Nifster]

Sorry that should have been post 89

[Zirondelle]

Zander-Bloser all the way!

[Kaslin]

Your second grade teacher was correct. You can write faster in cursive, than in print.