I agree with you about Barron’s “signature”. We homeschool and mom is death from above on handwriting. My son’s cursive is almost calligraphic, and the embassy here used him to write out invitations for the Marine Ball and other functions.
There is nothing that says education better than a beautiful signature.
Cursive writing is very important for creativity. It is the choice for journaling. It gets people in touch with their independent thinking
It is phased out for that reason, one can imagine, and so that future generations cannot read founding or historical documents
When phasing our original or traditional practices like this, like maintaining femininity, masculinity, borders, discriminatory immigration rules, it is just stupid to accept it without realizing consequences.
Well i guess i’m Too conservative. But accepting progressives ideas is stupid
I admire beautiful handwriting. I must say though, that I never, ever got the hang of cursive, even though I had to do it on that damned yellow paper with the alternating thick and thin-dashed lines. I had no coordination and just could not ever get it right. (This was back in the early Sixties)
However, I so admired my father’s handwriting...he was a naval officer, and his handwriting was strictly block capitals where the capital letters were a larger capital letter (Though he did write me one short note on memo paper in a form of cursive when I was in the Navy)
I loved that it was so clear, readable, and clean looking, that I began copying it and trying to mimic it exactly, which I eventually did.
A few years ago, I purchased a custom font, where you fill out a special form with your handwriting, and they email you the font...it is great! I used to write letters extensively, but after multiple surgeries on both hands, I can’t write more than a few lines before my hand starts to feel claw-like, and the legibility and neatness of the written words degrades to sloppy illegibility.
The font looks exactly like my handwriting (my style was well suited to a font) and when I sent a typed letter (with my handwriting font) to a woman who I wrote extensive letters to while in the USN, she answered back with a letter and told me that she had forgotten just how neat and clean my handwriting was! (I told her it was a font, but she did have trouble telling the difference)
I often think I might take a calligraphy course...:) I have enough coordination now!