Not a direct comment on the claims of the article but handwriting definitely seems to be a dying art. My mother, who's in her 80s never tires of telling me how

Not a direct comment on the claims of the article but handwriting definitely seems to be a dying art. My mother, who's in her 80s never tires of telling me how bad mine is. I may be biased but, while I admit mine wouldn't win any prizes for calligraphy, I still think it has a certain flourish and style to it. Up until a few years ago, I used to teach at a university and I was shocked at just how bad younger people's handwriting was. Looking at notes written by many of my students, you really would have thought they'd been written by a six year old; individually printed letters, painfully [and mal-] formed, with no sense of flow or consistency of size or spacing. I can only see this getting worse as more and more 'writing' is done with keyboards and less and less people reach for a pen. Even from a very young age To return to my mother. She tells me she regularly had lessons in 'penmanship' at school, being taught to write 'properly' with a fountain pen. My grandmother's generation were taught to write with dip pens and bottles of ink and left-handed children were forced to write with their right hands. I can remember from my schooldays [1970s] being given one or two lessons in primary school on how to do 'joined up writing'. That was about it. I doubt modern children are given any instruction in how to write at all. I wonder how long it will be til we start raising generations of children who, though not technically illiterate, are physically incapable of writing legibly at all, due to almost exclusive use of keyboards from a very young age?