A Farewell to Handwriting?

Generations of school kids learned penmanship from blackboards and workbooks. Whether future generations will learn to write their A-B-C's by hand at all is very much in doubt. Tracy Smith reports.

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[videogamer002]

The day they take handwriting out of school, the day we've got a major problem on our hands.

[Grannn]

Hand writing should never be taken out of schools . Doing that would just drop the quality of any nation by at least 30% .

[earrelevantmusic]

There's nothing less appealing than an adult with the handwriting of a toddler.

[MrMarica505]

my father Pande Jarevski was for 45 years ecconomicst but and historical caricaturist and illustrator of 50 child and scoolbooks.He not finished Arts academy but was membre of soc od painters of Macedonia. No one can imitate his line, even when draw hitler on danky(bulgarian tzar) in secan war. Art_yare_505

[KateGladstone]

Handwriting matters: does cursive? Research shows: the fastest and most legible handwriters avoid cursive. They join only some letters: making the easiest joins, skipping the rest, and using print-like shapes for those letters whose cursive and printed shapes disagree. (Citation on request— and there are actually handwriting programs that teach this way.) Reading cursive, which still matters, can be taught in half an hour to a six-year-old who reads: it doesn't require writing in cursive.

[harprdh]

there are schools that no longer teach cursive writing. So this is already taking place. On top of that student's printing skills are not very good either. Disappointing.

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

It's not only our penmanship that's now lacking. Our spelling & grammar has become atrocious. Thanks for posting this video.

[Grannn]

@Chicken1397 Thank you :)

[Chicken1397]

@Grannn nice random percent

[bgentlekind]

When I was in school in the 1960s, my favourite subject was penmanship. To me, it was like an art class. I suppose if you are a person who enjoys creating with your hands, most likely you will enjoy handwriting. I have never forgotten those hours of practicing both cursive and script skills. I prefer receiving handwritten notes rather than emails. I think it is a form of art. :)