I've heard some schools are reintroducing it now, but that doesn't help those that never learned.
I've heard some schools are reintroducing it now, but that doesn't help those that never learned.
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I don't get it. Are children in north-america taught writing with block letters ? What do your writing copybooks look like ?
Yes. We are taught to "Print" first, and then taught cursive but reassured its not that serious or important to know how, because we will be expected to write in print on everything academic.
Interessing. In France, you are expected to write cursive until you are 11 years old, when you enter collège (junior high).
Wow, I love that. American education did the same thing 50 years ago, but we made this change towards forcing students to write print. Nowadays they probably type a lot more than write, but there are still some brutally long written essays.
To me that sounds like not learning how to write.
You can scoff but back in the old days before computers were that common academic papers were required to be printed not in cursive because it was hard to read cursive.
So academia has always used print.
Seriously go look at scans of research papers written in the 19th century, and tell me that you can understand a word of what they're saying.
That makes sense, I used to use printed small caps for my revision notes for the same reason.
In are first year in the 90s we were taught block letters - plain text. In our second year we were taught what England would call "fancy", only we were taught it as if it were a different language to plain text, named cursive, which is really only used for signing your name on checks. In the 00s this switched to typing, so no one after the 90s learned how to read it.
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What about when they want to read an old letter from a relative, study notes from a senior, archive document, manuscript of work of literature they love or a fancy font ?
Ask ChatGPT to translate and summarize it.
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I believe it is a small wax tablet, where the letters are chipped out with a sharp tool.
I'm all for a zero waste education (^_-)
The key to zero waste is to eat the wax shavings.