Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸Aug 18, 2025

I overheard a woman ranting that it is bad that they are not teaching cursive in school. Her reasoning?

"If they can't write cursive, then they can't read cursive. If they can't read cursive, then they can't read The Constitution?"

This is 100% nonsense reasoning. I learned to write in cursive ~40 years ago. I've read the Constitution at least 4 times, but never by reading an image of the document - I only read it in print in a book or a website.

#CursiveWriting #LearnCursive

Show threadScott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

If you want to teach cursive, fine. Come up with better reasoning than this to devote some of our limited educational resources to it. For example, there are studies that suggest handwriting notes leads to better memory retention than typing on a computer. Are cursive writers better at taking handwritten notes?

As for me, I love writing notes on paper, and I find it to be a very helpful memory aide, but I don't use cursive.

#CursiveWriting #LearnCursive

Aug 18, 2025 at 5:00pmWeb