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I had many teachers who insisted on cursive, and none of them were half as lucid as you were just now.

• pavement 9y ago
  That’s how the cargo cult works. You’re teachers couldn’t explain why cursive was “better” but forced its use anyway. Similarly, forcing left handed students to write with their right hand finds a rationalized basis in superstition, although it’s been explained that when a cultural custom forces a bias toward a specific dominant handedness by default, it benefits safety optimizations in aggregate.