With keyboards, phones, voice-to-text, and increasingly AI, handwriting plays a much smaller role in everyday life than it once did.
Should schools continue spending significant time teaching children handwriting, especially cursive? Is writing by hand still an important life skill, or is it becoming the modern equivalent of learning to use a typewriter?
I don’t think we’ve gotten to the point we can get by without handwriting. What if your electronic device stops working, or what if you can’t afford an electronic dervice?
Amen! I was about to say the same thing.
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Peter
A very good point. But how many of us actually read our physical Bibles anymore? Here in South Africa, blackouts are a way of life, yet even the old habit of reading and writing books, browsing the shelves of a library, and actually sitting down with a physical book seems to be slowly fading away as everything becomes digitised.
Have you ever looked around and seen the majority of people practically contemplating their navels while staring at the television? Then there are the “computer necks,” and people constantly glued to their cell phones, walking around bent over with their eyes fixed on a screen.
Good topic @ellenvera
J.
I haven’t looked very deep into the science behind it, but I’m pretty sure there is a body-brain connection that’s very beneficial with handwriting. My son is actually attending one of those rare schools that still teaches cursive, and while I don’t necessarily think that’s necessary, he loves it! I also think it will help him to be able to read the handwriting of older people who seem to almost exclusively write in cursive!