[Magdalen] Computer Question.

[Jay Weigel]

Your son my have dysgraphia rather than just poor penmanship. It actually
exists! My parents both had handwriting that was small but very legible.
Mine, on the other hand, was never that good and has only gotten worse over
the years. I joke that it's a result of being around doctors for so long.
However, my brother the doctor, despite being left-handed, has quite
legible handwriting. Go figure.

In the UK and most of Europe they teach Italic penmanship, apparently
starting in first grade. I don't understand why the US doesn't adopt that
instead of the current system. It's quite legible and the kids don't have
to switch over from printing to anything. Besides, so many school systems
haven't even been bothering to teach proper cursive any more, why cling to
it?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 10/30/2014 12:10:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> cervus51 at gmail.com writes:
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> ​I  survived college on erasable bond typing paper. Most of my term papers
> were  composed directly on the typewriter on that sort of paper. What I
> would  have given to be able to cut and paste and rearrange thoughts as one
> can  now with a word processing program.​>>>>
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> My son Kirk has terrible cursive penmanship.  He got through law  school
> by being allowed to type his exams in the ubiquitous "blue books".  He  was
> in law school in the 1970's before the computer revolution.
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> The odd thing is that he can print quite legibly at the speed of  rapid
> typing.
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> He comes from a family where at least four paternal side generations
> have had handwriting that is remarkably similar and, fortunately,  quite
> legible.
>
>
> David Strang.
>