Progress?
First, it was scribbling on anything we could find and then printing. We knew we had arrived when learned cursive. It was like a rite of passage. I recall the big black and white cards on the wall with upper and lower case cursive letters for the entire alphabet.
I heard a news story about how more schools are dropping cursive as a requirement indicating computers and word processing are taking over, and the physical written word is going by the wayside. Here we go, yet another form of communication going away. To me, a handwritten letter is one of the most flattering things someone can do for another person. It shows they took the time and put thought into communicating their thoughts and words. I even like seeing the occasional line through a word indicating a mistake or different choice of words.
Is no longer teaching cursive handwriting, progress? I think not. If anything, it is dumming down the next generation to hide behind yet another electronic device just like texting and email in place of the spoken word. To answer the obvious question about this thought being doing on a computer, yes, I did write it out in hand first then transposed it to the computer. I don’t always have a computer with me, but I typically have a pen and a piece of paper for those moments of inspiration.
Rodney - Eye Kin Rite and Spell Guud :)
First, it was scribbling on anything we could find and then printing. We knew we had arrived when learned cursive. It was like a rite of passage. I recall the big black and white cards on the wall with upper and lower case cursive letters for the entire alphabet.
I heard a news story about how more schools are dropping cursive as a requirement indicating computers and word processing are taking over, and the physical written word is going by the wayside. Here we go, yet another form of communication going away. To me, a handwritten letter is one of the most flattering things someone can do for another person. It shows they took the time and put thought into communicating their thoughts and words. I even like seeing the occasional line through a word indicating a mistake or different choice of words.
Is no longer teaching cursive handwriting, progress? I think not. If anything, it is dumming down the next generation to hide behind yet another electronic device just like texting and email in place of the spoken word. To answer the obvious question about this thought being doing on a computer, yes, I did write it out in hand first then transposed it to the computer. I don’t always have a computer with me, but I typically have a pen and a piece of paper for those moments of inspiration.
Rodney - Eye Kin Rite and Spell Guud :)
Rodney, I always enjoy dropping by your blog. Your posts are all right out of my life cabinet. I submitted a piece to a writing project recently and I think the person was more impressed with the quality of my letter than he was with the subject matter. It did get me in the door! I'm with you on this one too.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Writing, literally, is a dying art it seems.
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