The article below from The Guardian reinforces my fear - we pen lovers are fighting a losing battle - and for reference my 16 year old grandson NEVER had a single class hour spent on penmanship, much less any time cursive.
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The article below from The Guardian reinforces my fear - we pen lovers are fighting a losing battle - and for reference my 16 year old grandson NEVER had a single class hour spent on penmanship, much less any time cursive.
8 solid years of Palmer method indoctrination in an iron fisted catholic immigrant school (Italians tought by angry Irish nuns) I am a native cursive handwriter. Even still, I did my note taking in law school ('85-'88) on a Tandy 102. I found it far superior to handwriting.
I'm a fast typist and I found that I could look at the professors while taking down most of what they were saying. I would prefer to take notes that way today but the keyboard is intrusive in smaller settings so I fall back on my cursive skills on paper or my fold 6.
I tend not to use cursive when annotating or hand-editing (mostly on the ProX due to the screen size) documents as my staff reads my printing easier. I guess I don't lament the loss of cursive by my kids. They cobble together a printing form of handwriting that seems to work fine for them.