IMO children should be taught cursive writing both as a meditative exercise and as a teaching of motor skills and the lack to do so is a near criminal impedimen

IMO children should be taught cursive writing both as a meditative exercise and as a teaching of motor skills and the lack to do so is a near criminal impediment of their development. I'm in my fifties and worked in a optics research lab and it was shocking to me how PhD students in their twenties, brilliant young men and women, lack the most basic tactile skills to handle precision instruments. Many of them would be better off working as elephant handlers.