Cursive writing is not being taught in much of America.

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118. I'm 78, so of course Ilearned it

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but it has certainly never done for me anything remotely like the "benefits" several people have listed above, so I quit as soon as I could. And yet one of my college profs suggested that I should seriously consider a career in archaeology as a documents person (reading and translating.)

Sure, some of the skills associated with cursive are valuable throughput life. But there are other ways to get them besides cursive. Knitting, crocheting, and tatting work the fine motor muscles, and no doubt so do other crafts.

This whole conversation didn't take long to put in my mind an epsode of the original Star Trak - from Season 2 - episode 25 - "The Omega Glory." Te fact that those people had completely forgotten cursive (no doubt ot taught it for generations upon genertions) prevented them from remebering the words of the document ... but not the spirit and the meaning.

Back on earth, different people learn different things in different ways. And I don't just mean learning through seeing or listening or doing. I mean every person is different from every other person. There is no simple pedagogy that always works. And, by the way, I have also studied - and taught - calligraphy (which also didn't do any of those things for me, though I love it.) I am ore than ready to dispense with cursive.