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Zaner-Bloser is disproportionate and ugly and should have never been taught to anyone. Had recent generations been taught something practical like D'Nealian or
by DanAtC 4y ago
Zaner-Bloser is disproportionate and ugly and should have never been taught to anyone.
Had recent generations been taught something practical like D'Nealian or something beautiful like Spencerian then maybe cursive wouldn't have gotten such a bad wrap.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI can't agree, I quite like it more than the other two you mentioned
- anjbe 4y agoI was taught D’Nealian in elementary school. I took to it fine, but within a few years decided it looked dumb, and dropped the tails and loops that looked out of place compared to the letter forms I saw in print. I learned cursive easily in third grade, and have used it in most handwriting ever since. Looking back, I have wondered whether D’Nealian had a positive effect there or not. It’s pretty weird reading all these other comments about how useless cursive is. Certainly I think it’s more important to type well than to write in cursive. But while the vast majority of my life’s text output has been via computer, I still use handwriting in plenty of places—postcards, birthday cards, thank‐you notes, and so on. Am I just anachronistic