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circumstances where it is wonderful to be able to write a personal, legible note in cursive, and somebody who can t do that i think is at a disadvantage. okay. you have a recent blog in which you wrote in the atlantic that you said cursive handwriting is good teaching and good neuroscience. how so? the students of the brain have found that the development of the hand and the development of the brain really go together. and so when people are learning to write and when they re learning cursive and they re writing things out in cursive, they re really learning things in many cases more deeply. okay. you also say that handwriting is relevant technology. how so? if you look at the origins of apple computer, steve jobs himself said that one of the great things in his experience was taking a course in calligraphy, and that s what prepared him to develop the fonts and the software for apple that made it the company that it
make those perfect t s, crossing all the s s and making them swirl back and everything else. dave s handwriting is exactly on par with that. all cursive. but now schools are dropping cursive in droves because people aren t using it and there s no way to really accurately test for it and they want to devote their time to other tests and other studies. it makes sense. look, with so many people who are texting, you send e-mails all time, we write on our computers all the time. cursive it may go the way of the do-do bird. i think you look upset. i m sorry, you feel nostalgic with cursive. with the little curly q s. he s got a cute i m hanging on for dear life. my kids, they re learning cursive. why? why is it so important? you know, i just feel like it s a lost art. it s something important. sign checks although we don t write checks school administrators at western springs elementary school have said that they found that it actually teaches cognitive skills. that by actu