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This woman seems to think that sacrificing the pen for the keyboard somehow makes us a more evolved or sophisticated brand of human. But when I picture a room
by jmcannon 18y ago
This woman seems to think that sacrificing the pen for the keyboard somehow makes us a more evolved or sophisticated brand of human.
But when I picture a room full of Americans than can't even scribble their own names on an application form, I get exactly the opposite impression.
- cstejerean 18y agoIf you learn how to read you'll know how to write good enough. All it takes is to replicate the shapes of the letters you read (and how I learned to write in print since we were only taught cursive).
- tjpick 18y agoThat's a strange argument. Learning to do something is going from seeing it being done, to doing it. Seeing the raw material, seeing the end product (either in you mind or in the world) and being able to use the raw material in the right way to produce something useful. That is the hard bit - knowing how to control things to get the desired result. All it takes to play the piano is to replicate the sounds of a tune you hear. All it takes to paint a good observational painting is to smoosh some colours on a paper to match what you see. It just doesn't work that way.
- cstejerean 18y agoIt depends on how much time you're willing to invest in it.