ceeqanguel said:
Fight for your rights to knowledge! I wouldn't be surprised if that was the same group that wanted to prevent evolution from being taught in schools. You know why they do that right? The less educated the people and the less capable people are at looking for evidence through books, the more pliable and gullible they are when politicians want their votes. And they all become all the more dependent upon the gov when the population can't produce enough scientists or doctors. (or highly trained professionnals). Then... religion has an answer. Then... you get black people to vote for a blatant racists like Romney. Then you get women to side with anti-feminists. The less educated the people the more wrongs they do to the country. And it all starts with stifling your education on basic things like handwriting.
Evidence?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27QTX46XNLM
In french Canada we have a similar problem: removing English classes from elementary schools. I learned english at age 7-8. Now the government wants to push it to age 12. The reason they give: it's too hard. But let's face it: if you can't speak english in 2012, you're handicapped for life.
"when the population can't produce enough scientists or doctors"
How does Cursive writing help you in academia?
Scientific papers must UNIVERSALLY be submitted in typed format, nothing is published or taught in cursive writing. On all official documents they see the need to loudly declare ALL WRITING IN BLOCK CAPITALS! There is a major campaign going on to STAMP OUT doctors hand writing prescriptions as their cursive hand writing is completely inconsistent. In the interests of excellence, cursive writing must be abandoned, people have been prescribed completely the wrong drugs or dangerously wrong dosages because of doctors using fancy handwriting.
In systems of VITAL interdependence cursive is a terrible mode of communication. Writing in block capitals is fare clearer. Academia is not about pointlessly showing off, it's about doing something USEFUL!
Cursive writing should be taught in art class along with other superficial frivolities, if it is to be taught anywhere.
Where is cursive writing used? It's not used in journalism, that's all typeface. The only place you'll encounter cursive writing is in history class but that would only be for reading old documents, you'd never transcribe into cursive. That's the only possible place where cursive writing need remain, a brief one hour lesson on reading cursive.
But the HUGE PROBLEM with cursive is there is no consistency, across regions and countries the handwriting style varies so much. My grandmother's cursive handwriting has completely different shaped vowels from my grandads, and letters look completely different depending on what they are attached to.
I don't see how not knowing cursive makes people more "pliable and gullible... when politicians want their votes". It's not like all the information on the internet is written in cursive and people can only share information about politicians and their policies via cursive handwriting tablets. Oh wait. It's all in typeface.
Not all "education" is equal, are people deprived by not getting a "religious education" where they spend all day Sunday being lectured to about how a genocidal god is "inherently good, is it bad they don't get that education?
Teaching English 7-8 is a different matter entirely. Even if English as a first language should be taught to under 12 year olds that says nothing on if Cursive writing should be taught at all as required curriculum.
