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something that makes me very sad about our comrades in the U.S (lemmygrad.ml)
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i was thinking about making a post about the importance of learning cursive handwriting (historical documents, neurological benefits) etc. but then i remembered how i learned cursive by my teachers guiding my hand. i realized that this is basically off limits in the U.S and this would be seen as very scandalous for a teacher to do but in most of the world its such a normal, innocent act for kids to learn how to write. a low touch culture literally kills a people so insidiously.

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[–] 9 points 1 week ago*

Pencils made cursive obsolete. It looks nice and all, and I can use and read it, but it's just not that useful when you don't need to worry about your fountain pen bleeding ink all over the place. I guess if you want your journal to look nice it's good? It's not like it's even a creative experience like drawing, though. You're just reproducing the same shapes over and over. What's the point?

What worries me is children not learning how to use a pencil at all and just ditching paper in schools, which I think is coming. Why bother with old and busted wood pulp when everything is computer?

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