As handwriting skill wanes states push back and readers respond.
Now and then, my inbox overflows when one of these Play in Mind posts strikes a nerve. Some correspondents chime in. Some contest the ideas. And some take me way beyond., which noted how the care required to master cursive was once regarded as a moral exercise essential to building “character.” Contemporary advocates modernize the celebration, citing the promising neurological and cognitive dividends of writing by hand.
As artistic sensibility battled with practicality, these observers did not divide neatly into “for” and “against” camps. Some lamented the waning of an art form, meanwhile noting the obvious advantages in the rise of “keyboarding.” For others, the expedient new communications technologies dampened a nostalgic tug for the endangered charm of thoughts rendered visible and personal by a trained hand.cursive. And I am not the only one.
Here’s an example. Once upon a time when a class asked me what made the Dark Ages dark, I told the story of the tenth century Holy Roman emperors Otto I, Otto II, and Otto III. Like nearly all other Europeans in that murderous era, the Ottos were illiterate. In 1870, M.M. Thompson observed in his instructional handbook that penmanship “embodies thought in a visible language. Under its magic power, ideas assume tangible form, and the eye may trace the operations of the mind.” Modern e-correspondence, more familiar but less personal, thins connection.that they had ever seen. One of them, Candice Jones, a retired clinical radiologist from the U.K.
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