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  1. Strange to think how much more joy i get from making a component and fitting it to my car, than just going out and buying a new one – my god to think that we really "need " this kind of research is truly sad.
    Life is about taking it in your own hands and creating your world – is it really possible that people think this cannot be done without microsoft????

  2. And in a previous age you could hear the cries of "This parchment and paper thing is too easy. Chiselling each letter into the stone builds focus and muscles. The child must think carefully and strike cleanly – mistakes are not an option. Clearly this new technology will make our children weak in both mind and body."

  3. blank John Ashton Jr says:

    Wouldn't teaching cusive handwriting help to develope the whole brain, left and right ?

  4. blank C. Givler says:

    Americans focus much more on pragmatism than on more holistic and critical thinking/intuitive aspects of intelligence and problem solving. Education for the life of the mind in order to produce a certain kind of person with particular kinds of thinking (liberal arts, humanities, philosophy, theology, history, language, etc.) appears to be antiquated and not "useful" for the 21st century and beyond. This kind of anti-intellectualism and narrow-minded thinking will end up producing a populace incapable of creative and critical thinking, problem solving, and the ability to make vital national decisions in the context of a wide conceptual base necessary for deep understanding of problems, situations, variables, and solutions. Cursive writing contributes to brain development related to thinking, conceptualizing, and creativity. Research studies on the benefits/values of cursive writing. The author of this article cites several studies. And you can investigate the Educational Summit "Handwriting in The 21st Century" held in Washington, D. C. on January 23, 2012 &lt ;http://www.hw21summit.com/> for more information.

  5. blank DavidAyer says:

    Prof. Karin Jones says evidence in favour of teaching cursive is inconclusive – despite how some of her studies have been interpreted by proponents of it. Many prefer it for journaling – David Foster Wallace said he always wrote longhand because it actually slowed him down somewhat, thus allowing his prose to come out more ordered.

  6. blank I-speak-for-doug says:

    “Unless I missed something, the study didn’t have any implications for
    cursive. It just talked about writing — so, as I understand the Indiana
    curriculum change; they’ll still teach writing just not in the form of
    cursive.” -doug

    1. blank Michael Lemuel says:

      I’m with you. Handwriting GREAT keep teaching it, not everything is digital, but where is the study that cursive is so great? A friend of mine says cursive requirements made it hard to learn english while fighting his dyslexia (sp?). If some kids learn cursive easier FINE go ahead and see if it helps them, but why make cursive a requirement anymore?

      Better yet, why don’t we use our current knowledge of organizations, mathmatics, and neuro-psychology to develope the easiest and most natural language we can conceive? Base it in logic, Dewey Decimal style organization, and natural flow (hopefully for both right and left handers).

  7. blank Jessie Stoner says:

    I actively support making cursive writing a part of the schedule again starting in elementary school. I am a confident cursive writer but my younger brothers can’t do it, they are more confident typing on the keyboard and don’t like to write by hand at all. I think it’s a great loss that so little attention is paid to handwriting these days, less and less every year.

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