Teachers used to teach their students this beautiful calligraphic workings through time-consuming sessions.
Those who don’t see the value in cursive writing may say “It’s just for writing in English, so people could just print their work--it’s easier.” That’s what people may think today. What is the use for cursive?
Most people don’t know that cursive is better for the brain. Back around even the 1770’s people used it very often and very beautifully. Today, the children are just forgetting that cursive is a thing. They don’t use it as often as children did years ago. They don’t use it as often as the men and women that wrote important documents that we people need to know exist. If we can’t even read cursive, then how are we supposed to know what happened in our history?
When people write in cursive, they are working their brain more, and this is something that people may not know. When children are writing in this form, they are developing their motor skills. A child who practices cursive will be practicing hand eye coordination and getting the gears in their brain working more than the child who is just printing their work.
A nice thing people like in their lives is variety--practicing cursive is also giving students an option to bring a sense of difference into their work. Cursive is generally pleasing to the eye, but another reason people may think it’s so wonderful is because it’s simply fading away from our world. The way that it loops and flows together is more appealing to people because it looks better than just the average Times New Roman font. When children learn this way of writing, they are discovering a more beautiful way to show the way they use words.
A long time ago, people wrote in cursive like we do nowadays in print. People wrote in the writing that is now remembered in our history books. They wrote in cursive, and the generation today still has some readers that write and are able to read cursive, but think about the generations after us--are they going to be able to read the Declaration of Independence? What about the original Bill of Rights or the Emancipation Proclamation? If a person can’t read cursive, then they won’t be able to read our history and what our people have done. People are afraid that history will repeat itself, but are we afraid enough? If we are this afraid, then we would still be teaching cursive like we did years ago when we started making history.
So why is cursive even threatened? We live in an age where technology is taking over the world. We live in an age where if you need to buy something, just click the little button in the corner and confirm your credit card number. We can write documents like this with a push of a finger.
Kids like me are using keys instead of pencils, and this is what overwrites history, it doesn’t add to it. Students need to know cursive so they can make more history--and not have to repeat it.