Why the Education Establishment Hates Cursive

[rangerrebew]

December 23, 2016
Why the Education Establishment Hates Cursive
By Bruce Deitrick Price

Modern educators are dismissive of cursive.  Indeed, many are hostile to such a degree that you should immediately suspect that they are up to something.

Here is an education journalist providing the Party Line: "Cursive writing is an anachronism. Spending any classroom time on it is comparable to teaching how to use an abacus: it's interesting as a history lesson, and probably offers some side benefits, but it is not at all practical as a day-to-day skill in the modern, connected world."

A professor of education argues: "Cursive should be allowed to die. In fact, it's already dying, despite having been taught for decades."  (You can depend on education professors to confuse "decades" with "centuries.")

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[JustPassinThru]

A good read, and thought-provoking.

Modern educators are tools of the Left, which as a vested self-interest in NOT educating the young.  They are what they are, their successes are the result, of their contaminating and destroying the educational infrastructure.  Ignorant young people, who of course become ignorant middle-aged people, are the reason the Left has moved out of its hidden cells in Brooklyn and Haight-Asbury and has become mainstreamed.

Someone like Josip Broz Tito would never have come to power in the America of our past.  He'd have remained a test-track laborer at one of the smaller auto companies (which was what he did in Europe before his new career as a despot) and retired on a fitting, but small, stipend.

The Left knows this.  They KNOW their opportunity, ideologically and for personal wealth and power, lies in DUMBING DOWN the kids.  And so far it's working...fifty years ago, Hillary Rodham would have been nothing but a charwoman or librarian.  It's her limits of competence...but thanks to the Left, she can dream of WINNING IT ALL, and almost did.

[Cripplecreek]

A good read, and thought-provoking.

Modern educators are tools of the Left, which as a vested self-interest in NOT educating the young.  They are what they are, their successes are the result, of their contaminating and destroying the educational infrastructure.  Ignorant young people, who of course become ignorant middle-aged people, are the reason the Left has moved out of its hidden cells in Brooklyn and Haight-Asbury and has become mainstreamed.

Someone like Josip Broz Tito would never have come to power in the America of our past.  He'd have remained a test-track laborer at one of the smaller auto companies (which was what he did in Europe before his new career as a despot) and retired on a fitting, but small, stipend.

The Left knows this.  They KNOW their opportunity, ideologically and for personal wealth and power, lies in DUMBING DOWN the kids.  And so far it's working...fifty years ago, Hillary Rodham would have been nothing but a charwoman or librarian.  It's her limits of competence...but thanks to the Left, she can dream of WINNING IT ALL, and almost did.

I've seen the subject come up at TOS and seen so called conservatives call it a waste of time. Personally I've always said we need to teach cursive for no other reason than to be able to read our founding documents without having to rely on a "scholar".

[truth_seeker]

When did you last see a slide rule? We put men on the moon with slide rules.


It was REPLACED




Noe merely a smartphone app

[Blizzardnh]

I've seen the subject come up at TOS and seen so called conservatives call it a waste of time. Personally I've always said we need to teach cursive for no other reason than to be able to read our founding documents without having to rely on a "scholar".

I love paying 3900.00 a year for private school on top of the public school property tax. not.

[andy58-in-nh]

When foundational documents can no longer be read by a majority of the public whose lives are still felicitously governed by the principles they enshrine, it becomes easier for those possessed of different or opposite principles to deny the meaning and purpose of those very documents.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

http://nypost.com/2013/06/28/trayvon-martins-girlfriend-admits-she-cant-read-the-letter-she-supposedly-wrote-to-his-mother-about-his-death/

[geronl]

Public Education is child abuse example #1.502,432

[Cripplecreek]

When foundational documents can no longer be read by a majority of the public whose lives are still felicitously governed by the principles they enshrine, it becomes easier for those possessed of different or opposite principles to deny the meaning and purpose of those very documents.

Throughout most of human history education was restricted to the aristocracy partly due to the expense of the hand printed word but even after the invention of the printing press, the aristocracy preferred that the poor not be able to read. Its easier to control the ignorant. Its why it was illegal to teach a slave to read in most places in the final days of slavery.

[Gefn]

I have my father's slide rule. He used it for college math back in the 50s.

[Smokin Joe]

I have my father's slide rule. He used it for college math back in the 50s.

We used them in High School. I didn't see electronic calculators until my sophomore year in college, about the size of a brick, and that one only added, subtracted, multiplied and divided--no memories. Freshman chem with a pencil and scratch paper...not so bad.

I think the reason the Communists don't like cursive is that handwriting analysis might prove them for the maniacs they are. Those who are unafraid would likely have little reason to be.