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I've heard some schools are reintroducing it now, but that doesn't help those that never learned. (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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Cursive has been replaced by keyboarding and computer skills. Both far more useful and relevant in the age we live in.

And by your logic we should just stop teaching history, because it's already been studied.

Uh, that would be your logic. Because you don’t trust somebody who studied history to teach it to you, because in your mind you can only trust things you’ve seen yourself, remember? We teach history out of books that were written by historians and educators, just like we study historical documents transcribed by historians and educators.

Let's stop teaching math because we already created calculators

Calculators don’t do math for you. You have to understand math to use a calculator.

Let's stop teaching second languages, because other people have already translated things.

We don’t learn second languages in order to transcribe things which have already been translated. You learn a second language to speak a second language.

hahahahaha, American education is garbage these days, no wonder you're stuck on dumb hill.

Maybe I’d be less dumb if I didn’t waste so much time learning cursive?

And maybe if you wasted less time learning cursive you could have learned how to follow your own thread of logic? You’re literally all over the place and you’re devolving into more and more nonsense. It’s shocking how much energy you’ve wasted championing a dead and buried art for absolutely no reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

replaced by keyboarding and computer skills.

I took those as well as cursive. Plenty of time for both.

just like we study historical documents transcribed by historians and educators.

And it's always better to have the skills to read them yourself. And being able to read cursive opens up lots of interesting documents, many of which have not been transcribed.

And once again, cursive is extremely easy to learn.

You learn a second language to speak a second language.

And to read in that language, and to translate from that language. Learning cursive is like learning a language, yet it is extremely easy to learn.

if I didn’t waste so much time learning cursive

What time? Cursive takes almost no time to learn. I learned it at the same time as learning print writing. It added almost no time to our writing classes, and I have the ability to read and write in both.

Why are you wasting your energy on this then? You could have shut up many comments ago