"The way handwriting is taught has undoubtedly changed. At Ms Florey's school in 1950s America, a nun beat time with a stick as the class copied letters from the blackboard. It was not a place for individuals. There was a right way to form letters and very many wrong ways. "

More famous handwriting samples at BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7907888.stm

Handwriting will exist in the lessons of pre-teens as long as we retain the archaic and useless ( except for the rich) education systems we hold so dearly. To our generation it may seem a great loss, just as our grandparents decry the lack of time we spend as families, but to the next or next + 1 generation, it may not be needed.

i say bullshit

Hmmmm . . . it's interesting perhaps it could evolve where electronics replace handwriting to a large extent.

My girl's in kindergarten and she is working on handwriting. I love getting notes from her. She likes to write me apologies. haha. She has a computer class too. I think we will always have a need for handwriting. What about when the EMPs knock everything out?

I remember in school having special exercise books to practice my hand writing. I started in an extremely small one room school house in rural northern B.C. So for writing practice I had a pen with a special nib that I dipped into my ink which sat in the little inkwell hole in the top right hand corner of my desk. I even had green blotting paper. I loved writing and I still get compliments on my hand writing. My one claim to fame. I have beautiful hand writing.

Aw . . . Tany; I would love for you to write me a handwritten letter sometime

Just need an address.

There is something rich and tactile about placing pen to paper. It cannot be replicated with the pecking on a keyboard. The style tells you something about the author and their state of mind at the time of composition.

In this age of everything digital, a handwritten letter stands out and is treasured for the effort put forth by it's author.

As long as people get to choose, there will be handwriting. And as long as having an artistic gift assists one's handwriting, there will be people who pooh-pooh it as meaningless elitism.

For some learners, it gets the shapes of the different letters into the body in a way that visual stimuli don't, helping them learn faster. For others it doesn't matter.

I used to love writing letters to family and friends and getting letters back. Now everything is e-mail or phone.

I write whenever I want. And this clip is a bunch of bull ... but then again my hand writing used to be great but has changed ... my mom even says its sloppy. But luckily my cursive is very neat.

I notice now that at exam time, after I have had to use an actual pen and paper for several days in a row......my hand and wrist are in real PAIN! It dawned on me after the last semester that this was now a reality in my life: I rarely write anything by hand anymore.

I have now taken a deeper notice of the gorgeous stationary and pens in the sales,hoping to inspire myself to write more......it's true that there is nothing nicer than getting a handwritten note. But still....I love my laptop, lol