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In reply to the discussion: Cursive writing is not being taught in much of America. [View all]Goodheart
(5,760 posts)228. Once again, because you missed the point the first time around...
SO WHAT?
There are countless activities... USEFUL activities... which improve critical thinking skills. To insist that children must learn cursive to improve reading and writing skills is itself obviously bogus... or else we'd be insisting they hang on to every obsolete writing system under the sun. Heiroglyphics, anyone?
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I am 75 years old and have only ever driven cars with standard transmissions.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Jan 2024
#158
My wife and I both can drive a stick, our 3 boys can't. We have an old 5 speed convertible, it's fun.
dem4decades
Jan 2024
#203
What is also insane is that this 21 yr old at my job couldn't figure it out at all and I had to rewrite it...
GuppyGal
Jan 2024
#2
Boy, he's gonna be in trouble when the nurse asks him to draw 2:15 on the nice blank circle!
rsdsharp
Jan 2024
#16
As the way and reasons we transmit information change, we discard older techniques naturally.
WhiskeyGrinder
Jan 2024
#4
I'm 70 years old, so of course I can read and write it. Pretty well, actually.
Goodheart
Jan 2024
#6
I'm 71, so obviously I used it in grade school and can read it, or most of it that is legible,
elocs
Jan 2024
#17
Cursive and Italic are similar, but the former has more loops and curls and the letters are connected
tornado34jh
Jan 2024
#80
There are many other things which help with brain development and motor skills.
Goodheart
Jan 2024
#223
The longhand version of the Declaration of Independence was just for bragging rights.
Aristus
Jan 2024
#7
That's a good point. Teaching it now is just a waste of teacher time and materials.
Goodheart
Jan 2024
#23
Clever use there of "interlinked" as though critical thinking skills depend on cursive writing.
Goodheart
Jan 2024
#82
Learning to write in cursive is shown to improve brain development in the areas of thinking, language and working memory
Donkees
Jan 2024
#25
It becomes easier to tap into a flow state where creativity and focus are amplified,
Donkees
Jan 2024
#60
Cursive is still taught in private schools, some public schools, and is making a comeback
Donkees
Jan 2024
#200
I feel one of the most useful things I ever learned was diagramming sentences.
Susan Calvin
Jan 2024
#220
At one time public schools offered a quality education incorporating the liberal arts
Donkees
Jan 2024
#232
Left handed by any chance? I am. I use a half hook position to write cursive
electric_blue68
Jan 2024
#235
I was a science major. My notes were usually full of math equations, sketches, graphs, etc.
hunter
Jan 2024
#217
That advice has been out there for at least 30, maybe 40 years or more.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Jan 2024
#165
Sad that future generations won't be able to read the nation's actual, original, founding documents...
brush
Jan 2024
#37
Some benefits of cursive. Read it and weep. (just kidding, but cursive is a good thing)
Joinfortmill
Jan 2024
#51
Writing in cursive is an act that involves both sides of your brain, so maybe that's
pnwmom
Jan 2024
#65
Same in Canada and I had no idea until I wrote out my Xmas cards to the grandchildren
Bev54
Jan 2024
#66
I fought this battle and lost in my kids school at the turn of the century.
Prairie_Seagull
Jan 2024
#70
about as convincing as the latest ad for an Android app that's supposed to help you fight congnitive decline
paulkienitz
Jan 2024
#130
Believe it will be taught here in California. Also, critical thinking skills
Polly Hennessey
Jan 2024
#77
I go back to the question raised by electronic life style as a whole: what happens when the power goes out?
Ford_Prefect
Jan 2024
#78
I learned shorthand in high school. I still use it a little. I reviewed it during the lockdown.
raccoon
Jan 2024
#197
I learned to print before I entered school. I learned cursive ("grown-up writing") only in mid-early grades.
eppur_se_muova
Jan 2024
#88
I confuse them by giving them $10.25 for an $8.20 charge, for better change
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2024
#204
I can't think of any reason to continue to teach cursive writing. As long as basic writing is still taught
beaglelover
Jan 2024
#97
I think it's high time we start teaching a NEW alphabet that more accurately reflects the sounds we make...
Goodheart
Jan 2024
#101
With or without 'sliding' vowel sounds found in different dialects of English?
Model35mech
Jan 2024
#108
Thank you for your reply. Being old, I don't remember a time I couldn't write in cursive, so it's hard to
Doodley
Jan 2024
#132
When something in cursive is important to the plot of a movie I think about this.
betsuni
Jan 2024
#115
Ask young people what they know about the holocaust. This is part of the dumbing down of America.
Doodley
Jan 2024
#116
It wasn't only about the writing. It's about learning a skill, dexterity, and discipline. Why learn fractions?
Doodley
Jan 2024
#137
When I want to leave a note to a teacher I'm substituting for I will write the note in cursive
kimbutgar
Jan 2024
#144
I can barely write my signature in cursive. Somewhere along the way. I started writing in capitol block.
OAITW r.2.0
Jan 2024
#157
Well, my generation can't chisel words into granite or write eloquently on parchment.
Silent Type
Jan 2024
#179
My mother was born in 1916. She attended Catholic schools as a child.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Jan 2024
#183
cursive writing is returning to classrooms across California. Why some local teachers say it never should have left.
CoopersDad
Jan 2024
#187
For people who think cursive is hopelessly out of date, well, so is anything written more than
betsuni
Jan 2024
#199
My Father ( b. 1910) learned Latin in school. No one was considered to be "educated" who could not read and
Chainfire
Jan 2024
#208
If you didn't read cursive and you wanted to read those letters, wouldn't you learn?
Mariana
Jan 2024
#242
In my opinion, because the only application of shorthand is to take notes.
Susan Calvin
Jan 2024
#233
Well, I (at 70) never gave up my cursive writing even as a left hander. I print, too...
electric_blue68
Jan 2024
#239