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Istiqlál (Independence), 6 Sulṭán (Sovereignty) 176 B.E. - Friday, January 24, 2020
PROMPT January 24 Yesterday celebrated National Handwriting Day in the USA. How often do you still hand write anything substantial? Do you think the decline in children learning cursive writing will be a hindrance to their generation? Penmanship Memories are weird. I remember some classes and events from grade school clearly, while other events are foggy or forgotten. One of the classes or lessons I remember is penmanship, which is "the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing", or "a person's style or manner of handwriting."3 Each child in my class had a work book with picture of the proper formation of the cursive characters. In class, the teach would demonstrate how to form the characters on s green chalkboard (there were no whiteboards at that time). After her demonstration, she (I don't remember having any male teachers in grade school) would walk around the class and watch how each child formed their letters. I suspect the goal of this class was to make sure our cursive writing was legible. I don't remember any of the students in my class receiving less than an A or B in penmanship. I still use cursive for notes that I write while I'm working online. I keep a loose leaf notebook near by to writ any ideas or lines the pop into my head while I'm working on something else. My handwriting is fairly clear. Sometimes when I sign my name (which I still do in cursive) my hand tremble a bit, but my signature is legible. My biggest issue with signing my name is the machines that take debit and credit cards. I don't like signing my name on those because my signature looks weird; however, the bank has never rejected anything I purchased that way. Footnotes |