We have had a lot of arguments on here about penmanship

[ashling]

the efficacy of teaching penmanship today, etc.

I came across this youtube on FB today .... (more at the link below)

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/jake-weidmann-master-penman/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. He does just stunning work.

My daughter likes to do calligraphy, and she's pretty good at it......but it's not her life's passion!

I hope he can get more folks to write the way he does. It doesn't look good...schools are phasing out cursive handwriting.

[Chan790]

2. Neat skill...but we should still trash penmanship and cursive from educational curricula.

It's honestly a waste of educational resources and time for a skill that has less use for students than justifiable...it needs to go the way of using a slide-rule, typesetting and other outdated skills.

[LWolf]

3. Nope.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/memory-medic/201303/why-writing-hand-could-make-you-smarter

[Chan790]

4. Don't care.

Cursive penmanship education still needs to die. It's a niche skill and we need to identify the ones that need to be abandoned to make room for new niche skills.

[LWolf]

7. Do or don't;

as a teacher, I pay attention to brain development and how neural connections lead to learning.

[WinkyDink]

5. Because printing like in elementary school is so superior.

[trof]

6. Many of the skills I have are no longer relevant.

Yes, I learned typesetting as a journalism major at university.
Late 50s.

I had a good career as a flight engineer.
That position no longer exists in modern aircraft.

I was a bartender.
That's still a job in upscale establishments, but it's more 'dial in the drink' and shoot the nozzle now.

If I were young enough I'd go back to cutting grass.
Grass always needs cutting.