The Ohio State legislator recently passed a bill requiring that cursive handwriting by taught in elementary school. This bill would help to preserve our culture. We have to own the culture. By this I mean traditional western culture. Cursive handwriting is become a lost art as people are typing on computer or texting on cell phones. Using cursive handwriting allows thoughts to flow freely especially when one is engaging in creative writing. Think back to the work of Mark Twain. His wrote is known for the imagination it took to produce. The elites seem to want us to think like computers and reduce us to biological robot. We must retain our humanity. I would encourage you to engage in creative whether it be poetry, song writing, or a short story. Our modern culture lacks the great literature of 20th century when Ed Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck's work was published. Cursive handwriting allows the individual to have a connection with their ancestors. It may even allow certain parts of the brain to be further development. Although, I have not seen any empirical studies done on this matter.
Unfortunately, many teachers think it is a waste of time to teach cursive handwriting. This not to vilify teachers. Of course, not all educators think this way. In fact, many think quite the opposite. When I was in elementary my teacher worked hard to ensure that every student could read and the write cursive handwriting proficiently. I mastered this skill despite having a learning disability. Many educators are reporting that the illiteracy rate amongst their pupils are rising. A few decades ago students used to learn Greek and Latin in school. Now it is a struggle to college students to even write coherent sentences in their own language let alone communicate a coherent set of principles. Writing is a vital skill for everyone, and if we hope to maintain our culture young people must to taught to write at the highest level possible. I remember when I was in high school a paper that got me a B in Junior English class got me a C- in college English class. The latter course was taught as a College Credit Plus class at my high school, and I took it my Senior year of high school. While this may seem relatively normal, consider that 40% of students that took the writing portion of the ACT are unprepared for a college level writing course. I took multiple college level writing courses in high school. While I was prepared for them I still had to make major adjustments to my writing style. For instance, my junior year of high school I took a college level writing online, and when we wrote an essay describing an event through the lense of the five sense I lacked the creativity and the abstract reasoning necessary to compose an impressing essay. As a result, my essay failed to paint an accurate picture of the event I was describing in the essay.
If your a student reading this I would encourage to practice cursive handwriting. Teach yourself if you must. There are plenty of tutorials on cursive handwriting available on You Tube. I used cursive handwriting though out elementary school, and recently I started utilizing it again.
