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I agree that it is good to learn skills for their own sake. But do you really think that cursive is actually good at communicating information? If people find
by 7952 9y ago
I agree that it is good to learn skills for their own sake. But do you really think that cursive is actually good at communicating information? If people find it difficult to write legibly then it is not really achieving that goal. I found cursive a constant problem at school that made the teacher obsess about presentation rather than content. And as an adult I find it hard to read peoples idiosyncratic scrawl. Text should be easy to read, that is the most important thing.
- novalis78 9y agoIn a sense that's definitely true. In another it seems to also depend on the cursive system. I recently went to Freud's museum and was able to read his letters without problems. Over a hundred years of using the same cursive system. It's beautiful, elegant and to a degree a form of art - Western calligraphy, if you will. The synergy of fine motor skills, art, history, neatness, self-expression and cultural transmission in conjunction with expressing yourself seem to be worth something. It's perhaps not even the cursive itself, but the training, persistence and effort that goes into creating something useful through your own hands that teaches so many valuable lessons. Easy is not always better - especially patience with oneself and persistent effort in mastering a skill could perhaps be beneficial for the next generation.