Why Cursive Is So Good For Your Brain!

[@chaseo965cp]

I'm the only person in my school (1,100+ students) that writes in cursive normally and everyone asks why I do it, but it's because I like it better.

[@leslyesantiago831]

I'm probably the only person ( that I know of) that writes cursive all the time. Everyone always stares at my papers saying they're to hard to read. :P

[@m1k3y48]

leslye santiago That's cause cursive is illegible :P Even good cursive is harder to read than bad standard writing.

[@ALZulas]

leslye santiago I write in cursive when I don't want my husband to be able to read what I'm writing. lol. I think it's weird people have such trouble reading cursive. Except maybe Q. Capital Q's are strange and don't look like they should.

[@BringMeSummer]

Cursive isn't illegible if you know how to read cursive. A lot if people think it's harder to read and, it's not. It's just that people don't know how to distinguish print alphabetic symbols from cursive alphabetic symbols. Therefore it's the people that can't read cursive that have the problem. But, to be fair there are those few people that suck at both print & cursive writing. *cough* doctors *cough*

[@RavenclawSeer]

I've wrote in cursive ever since Kindergarten.

[@soupy4099]

they should put braille letters on each key on the keyboard so our brain assosiates them with something, meaning we get more out of typing, like with handwriting.

[@mjxc1627]

I actually really like this idea

[@soupy4099]

MJXC1627 i bought the stickers off amazon that have the bumps because when i was learning to type i was having problems not looking at the keyboard. i got them so that i could feel the key and it helped a ton.

[@friendsrwelcome]

Richard Schreck Mentally there is no scientifically proven peak. Physically there is. So no.

[@mjxc1627]

Soopy have you learned to passively read braille with this?

[@soupy4099]

MJXC1627 i used to be able too, i got rid of the keyboard with teh stickers and haven't replaced it. don't use it you loose it a guess. :D

[@TrappDaygo]

My handwriting is a mix of cursive and print like it's weird

[@user-ph6gw7mw8n]

Eclipse SAME But that makes our handwriting unique

[@glitch5174]

SAME HERE my psychology teach stopped the class and mentioned it I thought I was crazy or something I wonder if there is an underlying thing behind it? I did go to private school where cursive was required for 13 years (pk-2 - 8th) and now I'm in high-school where it doesn't matter so I think maybe I could be adapting but cursive was ingrained in me so young I can't stop it entirely

[@peterobrien290]

I know a lot of teachers who write like that

[@WWG1-WGA]

Like like

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[@charleneong]

I find that cursive is just practical when it comes to writing -- especially when writing a lot. Your hand and fingers are flowing rather than start-stopping and it ends up being less tiring. Your cursive doesn't even have to be pretty; just legible. :)

[@LimeLivesMatter]

Charlene Exactly! That second-pause way of typing slows me down

[@jimman-beard2167]

Problem is cursive is not legible like 99.99999% of the time just type it out if you write a lot, your readers will thank you!

[@scottseptember1992]

From my experience in university, I've always felt that the act of hand-writing down my own notes on slides, handouts, etc gave me a deeper sense of connection with the topics being discussed and lasted longer in my memory than via typing. *Also, I feel more freedom in what I want to do on my paper with my pencil (such as drawing arrows w/e I want, etc immediately) than with typing notes on a laptop. Anyone else concur?

[@K.RenaeReacts]

Yes! I agree with you 100%

[@K.RenaeReacts]

Plus writing notes or anything down will help you remember as well.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

You bet I concur! I've been studying hard for a type of written exam and handwriting all of my own abridged versions of the source materials, and it is HUGE for implanting the theories and concepts into my mind. Feels like the Bic Cristals I use etch both the paper _and_ my brain.

[@mailinglists7415]

I categorically agree!

[@cathykrueger4899]

Absolutely. We learn through our fingertips.

[@Stalksomeoneelse11]

I write random shit in cursive as a sort of hobby when I'm deathly bored, does anybody else?

[@Rime_in_Retrograde]

Not when I'm deathly bored, but I do like playing with different ways of writing the same letter. I'm still trying to make my cursive G look less like a boat... I have terrible handwriting :/

[@naravas8331]

Sure do, writing with both hands is especially fun

[@Stalksomeoneelse11]

Kgcopper I've got nice handwriting but for the life of me, I cannot make a cap T, F, M, or Z that is satisfactory enough lol

[@StandardGretchen]

I keep a sort of "drunk journal" to write down/sketch crazy ideas when I'm with friends. Cursive seems to be a perfect way to handle the pen in those situations; it just comes out naturally and funny as hell.

[@Stalksomeoneelse11]

Stoic Yoic haha sounds like it'd be entertaining, you should sample a passage from it here lmao

[@kakkacarmenelectra7229]

I'm slightly confused, as I don't know anyone who doesn't write in cursive. The schools in England teach us to write in cursive at a young age, do people actually write in print? That must take forever!

[@gippywhite]

In the US, they really did drop it in many schools. And especially in inner city schools, most students can't even read cursive. If that's not bad enough, a lot of people write in all capital letters. It's really bad.

[@Doorknobs11]

gippywhite omg that's true. I live here hahahahaha I can do and read cursive. My friend only does cursive, and I mix print and cursive together when taking notes in class. Everyone does print hahaha

[@GlobalGaming101]

When I was in the 3rd through 5th grade cursive was forced down our throat. I use to be able to write in cursive neatly, but after the 5th grade I simply never needed it. I'm a Senior now in high school and I cannot write it anymore. Reading it is hard, but I can still some-what manage. In America print handwriting is not as hard to write neatly in. I'm assuming that's why it's slowly being replaced. It's a shame, but what can we do?

[@Doorknobs11]

bro im now a freshman in college. we have the same story lol My print handwriting is amazing for a guy.

[@asherjacobs1307]

I got taught how to write cursive in year 4-5 here in Australia. Most people forgot how to, I retained the skill. However, my writing is so small, its about 5 millimetres high in an exercise book and so un-neat to the point that I'm the only person who can read it, I enjoy watching teachers attempt to read it, on every essay I get back I think I only get the A's because they can't read half the words (I'm part of my schools highly renowned academic excellence program). Its pretty cool, 'cause I can write some really random and slightly disturbing stuff in my book and no one will ever no, except me.

[@JayAntoinette]

I come from a family that drilled neat penmanship into me. My grandma always said, "Good penmanship is an asset." Glad to hear she was right and all lectures weren't for nothing.

[@AnwarHaikalRuslan]

10 years ago, I hated cursive and cursed it every time I had to use it. Now, I'm in love with it and calligraphy has become my hobby lol.

[@shataviaaaron3498]

LMFAOO

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Reminds me of myself on math.

[@TrindyForce]

I'm 14 and I retaught myself cursive a few months ago when I decided that my handwriting looked like shit.

[@8happyperson]

planning on doing that myself sometime

[@TrindyForce]

8happyperson It literally takes no effort. Pick up the pen, open up an instructional youtube video, write otu every letter in the alphabet 5 times and then start writing "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs" and don't stop until your cursive looks respectable. And then just write in cursive.

[@13buthead]

TrindyForce that sounds awfully boring

[@MrNinestarkiller]

Samuel RF Not really, it takes conscious effort for this to get better. Instead of just mindlessly writing notes in class hoping you're able to keep up with the lecture, you don't worry about anything other that how it looks. But as long as you're thinking 'I don't like that particular part, I should change that.' for most of the time you're practicing it's not boring at all.

[@val_jimenez_4010]

Wow this was 6 years ago 💀

[@chiaohongcheng]

i write so much cursive that my chinese hand writing looks like a 6 year old.... and i'm 22

[@atruv2089]

my handwriting is a weird mix of cursive and "normal" writing.

[@omieshverkazehaya2934]

mee too

[@ximenapaola0]

same here, and by "normal" handwriting you mean print right? lol

[@atruv2089]

Vintage Princess Jellyfish yea, I do.

[@TrappDaygo]

I thought I was the only one

[@IamMuldeh]

You mean "messy writing"? Mine's like that too, people complain about it a lot. :|

[@creamofthecrop4339]

Lol I write in print but my teachers always tell me "please stop writting in cursive its hard to read"

[@dubs2922]

Instead of dotting I's I used to circle them

[@1Leggo9my9Eggo2]

Because she's probably an average very limited teacher.

[@creamofthecrop4339]

1Leggo9my9Eggo2 I said "teachers" as in more than one.

[@chelsea9161]

I'm going to start writting in print because my English nearly gave me a detention for not putting a line through my mistakes and my history says it sloppy

[@albertogorbachev2824]

NO Keep writing in cursive

[@lostusaslambus]

I love writing in cursive, and I use it in my journals. It's also handy that so few people can read it. I sort of feel like I'm writing in secret code. :D

[@averykevin47]

It doesn't matter if times change. Cursive is a must need to know thing. How do they expect kids to know how to sign their name as they get older. Trying to eliminate cursive all together is just dumbing down the kids of the modern society. It's not debatable it's been proven in studies. Developing fine motor skill is an absolute necessary. Cursive strengthens muscles in the hands and helps with cognitive and fine motor skill. A computer does not do that at all. It also helps with eye coordination too. Computers are fine but sorry they can cause eye problems and give carpal tunnel syndrome after repetitive use with a keyboard. Learn some things before writing such drivel.

[@Peeee000]

This is our society now. Future health problems are to worry about later.

[@radellaf]

Writing is a need-to-know thing. Joined writing is optional. Cursive, the copperplate derived loopy kind, is IMHO only useful so you can read things written that way. It's not faster, it's not more efficient, and it's definitely not required for a legal signature.

[@ismt9390]

I attended an art art school in Eastern Europe for 12 years. I can write cursive, sing, play the piano, draw, paint, sculpt. I'm a waitress now :)))

[@Rickfernello]

I really just write in, like, computer font. I feel bad when you guys say "cursive", my handwriting is not cursive at all. :(

[@Grimfang999]

"Ownership over handwriting" Yeah... no. We did cursive in school and the fact that they forced this upon us pissed me off. It was, in my view, inefficient and pointlessly difficult to read. Just write normally, perhaps it may be slower but at the same time its bloody readable.

[@OldeVikingOriginal]

If we went with what i saw as useless about school... well, there would be none xD

[@Grimfang999]

For the record... I always found information enjoyable to learn, but than that was after we learned cursive, I was an unruly bastard back then, but I dont think refusing to write cursive has affected me in any significant way.

[@OldeVikingOriginal]

How would you know if it left you affected or not!? you never tried to learn it, what if you became a new-age HP Lovecraft and wrote the sickest shit ever if you just took the time to learn it. xD

[@georgecataloni4720]

***** The structure of school as well as it's forced nature was created by Prussia to indoctrinate children to be obedient citizens... So ya, everything is useless about school until you choose it.

[@Grimfang999]

***** Your argument is that I dont know my alternative fate because I chose another path. Your argument is in some regards valid however I would not say it negatively affected my mind refusing to learning cursive, or at least significantly enough to reduce creativity or restrict though. My evidence, albeit anecdotal, is while at the time I was constantly drawing and being creative, and as I moved away from that by the time I was 12 I was thinking on philosophical levels on fatalism and biological determinism. By 15 I had thought of a democratic structure for a world economy and reached ideas parallel to Marxism by 17, not by reading his works but by thinking. While all this may sound arrogant, but I would say that the creativity and efficiency in my thought, though perhaps not the efficiency they mean, shows far greater capabilities than what cursive ever could have. Hell, maybe Cursive would have made me world leader already, but I doubt it.

[@WoWplayer527]

They teach us to write in clearly written print so the person grading the test can read what you wrote.

[@iphone12i71]

this is so true. my cousin failed to get a job at a really good company because he can only write cursive

[@dacasman]

I dont understand why cursive is a thing people have to LEARN. its really not that hard. just connect your letters together : l

[@meowzzar9583]

Some cursive letters are *different* than regular letters, so.

[@dacasman]

Yeah but not the the point where you need to be taught in school to use it. it's basically just a font.

[@izicial7469]

Cursive is so illegible though. People who have been writing it for years and years have slowly let it get sloppier and sloppier to the point were my mother and teachers can barley tell me what they themselves have written half the time.

[@izicial7469]

***** Exactly this. If cursive is so legible and easy to read then why isn't my comment being typed in cursive?

[@Nguyentommy1637]

Because if you write in cursive, and more used to it, it's makes you write almost twice as fast and almost no hand cramps. Plus cursive makes you look sophisticated. I been writing in cursive when I was young but everyone around me didn't. Every time i done an essay, at the end, my hand was barely hurting. ;)

[@dr.shereasat.braxton5385]

Hello! I am a fifth grade teacher. I have been teaching and expecting cursive writing in my classroom my entire career. It is amazing how many parents and students thank me for teaching cursive. I have had parents request me as their child's teacher just because of my high expectations and the fact I teach cursive. In some cases, students have found that their cursive is more legible than their print!

[@azmon]

I'm glad I had the chance to learn, art in all its forms is so under-valued in schools today.

[@007MrYang]

What about Japanese semi-cursive? Is that just as beneficial?

[@007MrYang]

Royale K While it's not very common, Japanese does have semi-cursive. which is cursive within the character itself, but not between different characters. Katakana are the characters used to write English words, but it's almost impossible to use semi-cursive on those.

[@AarynGoodwin]

Royale K Hiragana (not hirigana) is the phonetic alphabet for Japanese words while Katakana is the phonetic alphabet for foreign loanwords, both are used in tandem with Kanji, neither can be considered cursive in and of itself.

[@freyja9468]

Cursive does exist for 漢字、 and both ひらがな and カタカナ do have print, semi-cursive, and cursive forms. Of course, if you use more 変体仮名 or 万葉仮名 then you'll get more variety in that aspect. Yes, learning to read and write the standard ones and print as well as variant and cursive will be beneficial to you. You're able to retain vocabulary, neat handwriting, increase reading speed, and various other things. Just... Do your best to not make your handwriting look like the computer fonts; さ and き look much better when disconnected at the bottom.

[@saralangevin5244]

I'm all for the continuation of handwriting! About four years ago I started writing in cursive and it has since become my main form of handwriting. Since starting high school I seem to be the only person who continues to write this way, but in middle school I knew of two others who did. Now, I get plenty of negative comments about my handwriting, but I honestly love writing in cursive as opposed to print. Having never been formally taught cursive I would love for it to be revived in schools, I have a teacher who's shocked that it isn't!

[@CandidKage]

cursive is faster for me than writing in simple print, so I usually do it out of necessity. I also personally find that hand writing notes, brainstorming or reflections helps me learn/think more deeply. If I type something, I have to re-read it several times, and I usually still feel like it isn't my words (I feel dissociated).

[@nicholasduck9663]

Good cursive handwriting reminds me of my grandma, her handwriting was cleaner and more elegant than the declaration of independence

[@KawaiiKat73]

As long as we never drop handwriting alltogether, I'm happy enough as it is. ^^

[@AllyGarr]

Maybe this is why I can only write good essays on paper...

[@nikwainoble7102]

My five year old has shown an interest in cursive. Although it is not taught in school I am going to teach her. I write in my journals in cursive and have for a very long time. I've tried the computer typing a journal and it doesn't feel like I get anything off my chest. I believe cursive should be taught and used. It saddens me to know there are a huge pooulation of people that will never "sign" their names. As a child and even now I practice writing my name in cursive to set it apart from others. It is fun and you get to use cool lens like fountain pens. Cursive could be viewed as a coded language now a days. So sad.

[@iphone12i71]

the school should teach us when we are still young and don't know how to write. I'm now just a freshman in high school and I've been writing print for over 13 years. now school forces me to write cursive. and I might flunk English just because of this. i prsonally thinks print is better because its neat.

[@heinzguderian628]

Its really simple, it takes less space in a notebook and its easier to write faster continuously

[@robertosvandenenden2530]

In my country cursive is commonly used for writing and only a few people writes in print

[@thenaword6770]

Can't share with students or parents because of the "love note" in the introduction.

[@ThadiusMeyers]

I think it should definitely be taught. It's a skill that surpasses the classroom. It requires more thought and discipline which is definitely needed nowadays especially since everything is now instantaneous in our world. We are starting to forget that our bodies and mind can do work as well. Cursive reminds people of this in a most subtle way.

[@iphone12i71]

the school should teach us when we are still young and don't know how to write. I'm now just a freshman in high school and I've been writing print for over 13 years. now school forces me to write cursive.

[@ReiTwenty]

As long as schools don't abandon handwriting completely. Keeping cursive for our future generation is not as important as teaching them coding, but plain old handwriting should never be forgotten.

[@jmurray1110]

Though keeping cursive specifically doesn’t make sense when you can just write in print

[@1Leggo9my9Eggo2]

We learnt cursive writing in the uk at very young ages, maybe 17-18 years ago. Most of us all learnt how to write the cursive alphabet and translated that into normal sentences but then I noticed how a lot of my peers went from either a mixture of print and joint, or just completely print. Only a few of us remained cursive for our entire lives. I always got compliments about how beautiful my handwriting was, every teacher I ever had would fall in love with my writing, and I guess that, as a young child/teenager, subconsciously made me want to keep it. Every family birthday card, every letter etc I get told to write it as everyone I know loves it. At one point I felt like I missed something fundamentally, not making the transition, but now that I'm older I realised that actually I kept it old school and the way it should be.

[@erickajarin3954]

I think cursive is getting popular today because of the brush lettering trend or something like that. This is my opinion.

[@rtswift]

1:58 i wonder what tara is spacing on

[@TyroPirate]

She's probably just reading the script and thinking about it.

[@jaker20101]

Nope she was thinking about me. AGAIN.

[@13buthead]

what will she eat when she gets home

[@saulg195]

Wondering what she is doing with her life.

[@ClydeLeeM]

I think the benefit of learning to grasp the same information from another view is also a helpful attribute of cursive.

[@ski364]

Cursive is the bane of those of us with dysgraphia, a minor learning disability. Forcing cursive on us is cruel and can be very painful and discouraging. Students should be allowed to chose how they express themselves, and not be forced to use only one method. Using cursive and having dysgraphia has the opposite effects as noted in the video. I could not express myself with handwriting and still find it difficult. However I find that I can express myself and my ideas much easier with a keyboard. As far as ownership goes, that can easily be expressed through writing style and word choice.

[@talimbeingaverythriftyghor5967]

Dysgraphia?

[@ajs11201]

Yes, there are some people for whom handwriting--especially cursive--is painful or even impossible. However, that doesn't negate the point of this video--that for many (most) people, the act of writing helps the student learn in many nuanced ways. Your argument misses the point: that's like saying some children have dyslexia, so let's not teach any children to read.

[@GrillMasterDadChef]

@@ajs11201 I concur

[@Bekll]

I write letters on average once every two months. As for my writing, it is literally half cursive and half print.

[@ravenlorans]

Show us the Picture. Tara, that joke about Trace was Tarable. XD

[@makeuthinkmike]

This is so interesting because I remember writing in cursive; paper after paper! The struggle! But even though computers are much faster, they catch grammatical errors and mistakes for you; allowing less care of how the paper should be written because the computer will catch it for you. Although, handwriting does cramp your hand after a while haha. But, eventually handwritting will be a thing of the past, like everything else, but not as soon as we think. There are and will be those advid writers and readers in the world for years to come.

[@jmurray1110]

I do wish we would universally switch to thicker (and more triangular) pens though bic pens in particular cause me a lot of cramps so getting actually erganonic pens is rather expensive and less likely to be an option if you didn’t bring your own

[@FPrimusUnicron]

i use to have a beautiful cursive hand writing..............now, i write like some kind of idiot

[@Japanthewoman]

Similar story here. Though I never thought my cursive was really beautiful. Well, English cursive anyway, I did think my Russian (Cyrillic) cursive was quite lovely. But I write it sometimes now and I think it look awful! Makes me sad yet I'm too accustomed to typing and non-cursive writing to improve it again.

[@methylDragon]

I find that I can put down my thoughts faster, with more detail and clarity when typing than when I'm writing (in some sense, when I'm typing it's almost as if my entire stream of consciousness finds its way onto the page). I'm guessing it's most likely due to the speed at which I can pen down my thoughts when typing as opposed to writing on pen and paper. It's probably a combination of the fact that a lot of my thoughts tend to be fleeting and require penning down as soon as possible lest I forget them, coupled with the general frustration at the slow speed of writing that gives the aforementioned result. (I catch myself purposely omitting details and the like when writing because it's much too much of a pain to write them down.)

[@adamyasmeen]

Love DNews :D

[@jirehguy]

You don't have to command people to love DNews. People can think for themselves.

[@PotatoExibit]

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[@Fortissimo2012]

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[@jirehguy]

PotatoExhibit Why do you want me to kill joy? I can make dicisions on my own. You don't need to tell me to kill joy. I can do that on my own if I wanted.

[@Eysc]

you like the D

[@kiori66]

Can you please cover an episode about smart meters? I cant find any non crazy info on them. I want to know the real truth and what they are and what they do..

[@somebread695]

"Computers have made handwriting and cursive are a dying art."

[@240subscribersandnovideosf5]

I still feel like when I type, I can get more ideas in and my speech is more refined. Plus, I type faster than I can write and I also get no hand cramps. However, writing in cursive is still enjoyable for me. I prefer it over writing in print (it actually helps prevent hand cramps more--maybe because of less muscle tension and contraction?). I think it's a beautiful form of writing and that it should definitely be taught. It should be taught not only for mental benefits, but also because it's still widely used throughout the U.S. I was in a course and my fellow classmates couldn't tell what a cursive 'z' was, and pronounced it like an 's' (amongst other letters pronounced wrong--e.g. a 'v' as a 'u'). This was in a German language class (yes, they have cursive writing almost equivalent to English, too) and if this was a pronunciation exam, they probably would have been screwed! Not only so, but I recently went to a quaint, small café. They're entire menu was handwritten in cursive on a green chalkboard. Of course, everyone has a different style with their handwriting, so this makes it double the difficulty to interpret. I'm lucky I could order properly. So, my conclusion is that learning cursive will not only give them mental benefits, but it will also help them function in the "real world."

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Yes, cursive has far less micro-movements such as lifting the pen off the paper, and it's a constant flow so it's less tiring. Even less so if you adopt a better stance.

[@mattheweppley]

We should most certainly continue to teach our children cursive! I find it absurd that they've stopped teaching it. I am also biased because pen-palling is one of my hobbies, but I agree that it stimulates the brain. :-)

[@iphone12i71]

yes, but school should teach us when we are still young and don't know how to write. I'm now just a freshman in high school and I've been writing print for over 13 years. now school forces me to write cursive.

[@AD-nv6jt]

But I never ever use cursive in my damn life.

[@jimman-beard2167]

​@@AD-nv6jt Yep I can say other then signing my name I never find cursive useful. Opposite in fact Nobody likes reading it and I have been told my penmanship is great, just typed papers are 1000% easier to read. I wrote a few letters to my parents and they prefer typed letters, sure there is a personal connection to a handwritten letter, just the reader is rarely considered... and If I wrote cursive I will always get a phone call like what is this word...come on mom you write in cursive too I know as she writes Very Nice and gave me a bunch of recopies, and I still need to call her and ask at times what certain things say?... Its crap to read... Cursive has such limited uses its baffling that so many want to save this dead useless method of writing. Teach typing and keyboarding its 1000 times more readable and WAY more useful!

[@kathrynsaysdrinkwater6993]

I'm 18 and just now learning cursive. They did teach it in my elementary school but they didn't care if you really learned it or not. Schools today are just holding cells to prevent children from running about. We do not learn; We memorize

[@alvinjones6856]

Good for you...I never learnt it properly and had to go through Handwriting without Tears, a kids system but very effective. I found the best thing was to ALWAYS do it perfect, and stop when i got tired so i didnt learn bad habits as I had all my life...:(

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Yea, they're turning children into amoeba brains. The West is falling by the wayside and going by the education standards of today's kids, it'll be irrelevant for centuries.

[@Salpeteroxid]

I use cursive, I get less hand cramp with that style.

[@Darlene5541]

I love to write! Writing gives mea sense of relaxation and my thoughts flow freely. I agree handwriting is extremely important. Computers can be stressful!

[@VCheesey]

It would be nice to have the option of learning cursive in schools. "Wait....something OPTIONAL in school?!?!?! WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN???" And that's why it's not. It seems things like that are either forced, or not provided at all (At least, in elementary and middle school, that is.)

[@FotisCanada]

I have not written cursive since high school (since my teacher complained he could not read it and I should just use big block letters). I still managed to get a masters degree: Cursive is archaic drop it.

[@allmendoubt4784]

I am a lecturer and would consider it lazy to complain to a student about a handwriting style, basically an unclear word in a phrase is intelligible by the context of the phrase and the piece. Nothing though is worse than reading printed isolated letters, because they generally go with a piece with little imagination. Moreover when marking 300 pieces on the same topic most phrases are repeated over and again and therefore are skipped for the meat at the beginning and end of each para.

[@Humineral]

Dropping cursive is ridiculous, it's a fundamental style of writing. Block capital for forms, cursive for everything else.

[@jimman-beard2167]

This statement aged like milk...lol Im 35 and other then my signature its USELESS, not used in todays workforce because NOBODY likes reading cursive.

[@Humineral]

​@@jimman-beard2167 Now-days I have zero care for handwriting and write in a mix. Working in the kitchen with people from many different countries, the only thing that matters is it's not hieroglyphs. Spelling doesn't even matter so long as it's vaguely phonetic. There's just soo much more important things to worry about. It's stupid as well, to judge someone on their english handwriting, when they can speak 5 languages, can cook better than you and the job is about cooking food. It puts things into perspective.

[@drivernjax]

Yes! Emphatically, yes! Cursive, while not used all the time, every day, should be taught. As you stated in this video, cursive writing stimulates the brain in ways that typing and printing doesn't. Brain stimulation leads to greater intelligence and more robust thought processes.

[@Athrun000]

drivernjax The question is if there are actual differences between writing(in general) vs writing in cursive? I doubt so...

[@Blackrev0lt]

I have a question,. I know the average Japanese uses about 2000/3000 characters. Would this explain why asians are so smart? It would certainly help i guess :D

[@Blackrev0lt]

haha

[@hasmahyusoff5039]

does cursive make you faster at writing ?

[@nataliewimberly6130]

Yes, cursive handwriting is a must! When I write in cursive I am more creative and expressive.

[@turntableone]

I remember taking handwriting classes in elementary school and I even recall a calligraphy course in middle school. I also recall we had classes in sewing, classes in home economics that did cooking food, classes in woodworking and metal shop all while in middle school. That was back in the 80s...do they still have that stuff today?

[@shadfurman]

I think cursive should be dropped completely as required skill. We moved around a lot when I was a kid and no schools taught writing the same. Every school was just as strict on doing writing THEIR way and acted like it was my fault I had been taught differently. My experience gave me a significant amount of disdain for the education system and reinforced my introvertedness. I think cursive should be taught as an art form, if not an elective. Writing is beautiful and cursive can be taught in the same line as calligraphy. Instead of focusing on getting letters exact, children should be taught to make letters beautifully (while still being readable). I practiced cursive years after high school, because I was still bad at cursive and wanted to be able to write beautifully, I think most people do.

[@ziliath5237]

I dont think cursive is Beautiful. IMO it reduces legibility even when they are supposedly legible, this is mainly because people who dont practice it are unable to read the abstract variations of the letters. when writing i had to print my letters because i was so bad at it... now i take an artistic approach and prefer to print but make them my-own in terms of a "style" but it takes me longer to write if i want it to look good. otherwise i just scribble something legible for the sake of imparting information.

[@Rumplefrumple]

i moved 14 times before graduating high school and still write in cursive today. none of the schools i went to took issue with variation in the letters so you must have been very unlucky.

[@herpsenderpsen]

You just saw a video about how good cursive is...

[@shadfurman]

***** did you read the comment? Did you not have a subject that you hated? Did you have a subject you enjoyed? Which did you learn more from?

[@shadfurman]

***** yes, many if not most American public schools no longer teach cursive writing.

[@ximenapaola0]

Ever since the third grade, I have had a passion for cursive. It's too beautiful and beneficial to be left behind. I practice it everyday, and at school I normally write in cursive, so that helps. I've also been wanting to write a letter, but I don't know to who... mmhh

[@Stella24Bella]

Write one to your mother. She'll be happier than you could imagine

[@jimfang3168]

Cursive is important. However it is nice to pass a note to my smart friends in cursive and have the dumb kids not be able to read it

[@centiceden]

Haha same

[@karmeshpatel1643]

Well i can read it just not ones that are realllyclose put together.

[@siZeDcuBe]

Jim Jimmy Cursive shouldn't be hard to read; you're handwriting is shit.

[@mitchelll7846]

who the hell cant read something because there are lines between the letters? they are either retarded or your handwriting is illegible

[@MarcusWolfWanders]

taught my sister how to write in cursive well before they were going to teach her in grade school. completely floored the teachers when they found out she knew so early :)

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

Yea, I'm calling bullshit on this. There are many other things that help your brain much more than cursive. It's not important.

[@sallymj8957]

What other skills would help you read primary sources for handwritten documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? This just occurred to me today.

[@DieyenDualPen]

The only one I can come up with is writing mirror image cursive with the non-dominant hand.

[@Fluxion11]

You're obviously a young know it all. No offense. Most of us have gone through this phase. One day, you will understand.

[@iphone12i71]

the school should teach us when we are still young and don't know how to write. I'm now just a freshman in high school and I've been writing print for over 13 years. now school forces me to write cursive and without letting us learn (they assume we learnt it, but the truth is I am in an international school, so as a foreigner I never learnt it before). and I might flunk English just because of this. I personally think print is better because its neat.

[@BeanandLeah]

Tara really reminds me of Donna from that 70s show

[@37Delan]

What just happened to Tara at 1:58 ( I'm talking about her arm , it was strange!!!)

[@JesusPedroza]

Very interesting! I think it should be kept, I write everything in notebooks and paper, especially in cursive because it looks better than my print writing. I'm glad that some schools (or teachers) still teach and encourage cursive still. From checking my niece's homework, and what they tell me, their teachers really try and focus on penmanship.

[@jmurray1110]

I have to viamently disagree Cursive could stay as an ejectuve but mandating it only causes issues because it can be incredibly difficult to read for people (cough dyslexia and dysgraphia exist) and had actively ducked up my writing for about a decade before I was able to actually switch to print Even talking to people today I’ve heard them fume at cursive because half the tubes it’s illegible

[@cedv37]

In addition to the reasons that have been mentioned in the video, there is a more important point why we shouldn't forget writing. Handwriting is the most direct way to store, manipulate and deliver the information that does need the least circumstance-dependent resources to creating and reading it. I doesn't need electricity, microelectronics or internet and the infrastructure that makes avaible all those things, If we have light we can read, if we have a scrape of chulk we can write. It is our first physical extension of our mind that make us capable of thinking beyond our limitations. Accessibility, flexibility, robustness. It has been working for some thousands of years, I think we shouldn't sacrifice this values so quickly. The main purpose of creating computers wasn't replacing working things but to achieve more.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

*_EXACTLY._* We never stopped lighting fires with sticks and stones just because we got lighters and matches. And I do not trust a machine to think for me, quite the opposite.

[@art_of_vaul]

I am curious what research says when someone creates their own version of writing script. Like a different font. For instance, a like to drop some letters below the baseline, mirror some letters across the vertical axis (my capital F is backwards), create elaborate angles, or simply disregarding certain structural norms learned while being taught cursive. Is this thought to be a dumbing down of rules, or a creative personal evolution? I personally think I have beautiful handwriting, but it is sometimes unreadable by those who only barely paid attention to learning cursive (or they never had to).

[@hankkima624]

I've been thinking along these lines lately myself. Although I learned cursive in grade school, as I got older teachers started discouraging it and began insisting on printing or typing. They said cursive was too hard to read, probably because it tends to become stylized. I teach piano and I think the similarity of cursive and music reading and playing lies in the continuity of movement. Perhaps it is this continuity that stimulates the brain by providing connectivity. Maybe the connectivity enhances connectivity in neuron connections. I'm just guessing, but I found something on the web that kids who have music lessons score more than 40 points higher on SATs than students who study other arts.

[@ARFthegodking]

hank kima Lots of teachers inherit students who were taught cursive poorly. If good penmanship were taught, it would be easy to read. Walking is a difficult and complex skill, as well. With daily practice and constructive feedback (falling) the vast majority of us get really good at it. Everything is awkward and hard until you master it. The developers of cursive scripts would turn over in their graves if they could hear all the ignorant and lazy criticism that their systems recieve, along with the poor quality instruction that accompanies it. There is something substantially different about handwriting compared with typing. It's a valuable human skill that cannot be replaced by technology, no matter how much lazy teachers and myopic smartphone zombies insist that it already has. I love writing in cursive, too. It warms my heart that in many European countries handwriting, in its regional iterations, is recognized as a crucial and quintessential human skill.

[@AmandaDixson]

I agree with the study. I learned in high school about the benefits to cursive writing, and to this very day, I have a mix of both print and cursive writing.

[@TheAdminviper]

As a student who excels with computers, I will say I prefer typing an essay rather than writing due to the fact when I write I write is small, concise cursive which takes a good amount of time to write out, while with a keyboard I can type 126 wpm.

[@TyroPirate]

I just started writing in cursive this year in my first year of college. In the beginning of the year I was terribly slow, it looked like shit, and keeping up with the lectures was tough (because I couldn't write fast enough). Now it's the end of the year and it looks nicer than print. Although I still write in print much faster, but I've been doing print for what, 15 years? I still need more cursive writing speed and a sort of stamina increase, but I will get it down. It's really fun though, it really makes me think about writing, and makes it a more involved process :)

[@sylvur]

I find Smartphone texting to be the downfall of writing. I dunno about you guys, but I've always challenged myself to type faster on a QWERTY keyboard. I'm now at over 130 words per minute and hoping to become even more faster with time, and the reason I think this is working my brain more than handwriting is because I can think quickly while also typing everything down. Hand writing is slower and I find myself thinking faster than I can write. Sure I can write really quickly (I had to in College) but gawd did my fast hand writing look so BAD! Half the time I could barely even make out what I wrote because I had to jot it down at lightning speed so I don't miss out on what the teacher is saying or what I'm thinking. But the worst of it all? Smartphone texters. You only use your thumbs to write stuff, rather than all 10 fingers on a QWERTY keyboard. I personally find that being able to type really fast by using all 10 fingers works my brain a lot more than texting with both my thumbs. I wanna see someone do a study in between a group of people trying to write a novel using both their thumbs on a Smartphone or Tablet and another group of people using a laptop or PC with a QWERTY keyboard. It saddens me to see companies like Apple pushing more and more Tablets onto students rather than laptops. Tablets are NOT working tools! You won't get anywhere in life if all you know is how to use a pathetic little tablet or smartphone! People who type fast using all 10 fingers on a QWERTY keyboard get better jobs and it requires a lot more skill!

[@Rumplefrumple]

you can get keyboard docks for tablets. a novel written purely by thumb would result in spontaneous thumb combustion.

[@shadfurman]

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[@shadfurman]

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[@TerraOmnia]

Last year there was a good number of people who were pure smartphone during NaNoWriMo. I don't know if you could get the exact numbers, but I'm going to imagine that their success rate was lower. Of course, with phones having speech recognition in them as well, why do we even need to type?

[@Ranger1812]

0:04 Well it is called D News for a reason.

[@MadhuriBezawada]

I agree with this video. Writing seems outdated to so many people. In school, I'm always surprised about what people say when they notice I write in cursive: "Whoa, you still remember how to do that? I completely forgot about it." Sigh. Humanity.

[@zentatsunoryu]

I'm dyslexic, up into the third grade I could only barely put letters together I couldn't tell (when writing) a d from b or which direction a j went. learning cursive changed that overnight, as soon as I could write in cursive everything clicked into place. This explains why.

[@Klatski]

I have an unstable hand, so either my cursive is sloppy and always heads downwards after half of the line, or then it takes me 10 minutes to draw a letter. I usually connect cursive letters, but in 2nd grade they taught that r never connects. My cursive is usually italian. I broke my left arm today so yeah, not gonna write soon. I'm OK with writing, but I absolutely despise that it has to be on notebook, which came necessary on pretty much every book since 4th/5th grade so they could re-use the books when the previous class moves and uses them. My cursive is pretty different from my standard handwriting and it changes a lot depending on the paper and pencil, though my standard handwriting is barely any different for 5 years now. I don't really like it and the teachers don't usually understand it correctly. Also, I think music lessons are a waste. You need to get your own instrument afterwards, and it's also very awkward in the lesson. You forget all the notes after 2 weeks and then there goes the money.

[@carpy1252]

Just recently I started carrying a notebook around with me so that I can take notes, doodle, do calculations. I was getting tired of trying to do everything on my little smart phone which always runs out of battery, and is too small and uncomfortable to type anything other than a couple of words. I tried to make it my go to for everything but it just doesn't work out. After 5 years of trying to make my smart phone a tool for making lists, calendar, and organizing my thoughts; I'm very glad I gave up on it and use a notebook again.

[@KJRico93]

I wind up doing a sort of print/cursive hybrid when I have to write fast. Really the only reason I dont really use cursive is that it has just been so long since I was forced to learn and use it. I could always just relearn it but it would take forever and there are just so many more interesting and important skills to learn, at least in my opinion.

[@mjxc1627]

I'd be curious to see how cognitive development and functional specialization can be supplemented when comparing cursive to a higher visual tasks like puzzle games or first person shooters. The visual processing rate for these activities are much more demanding than cursive and the reported benefits that I've heard in these activates seem to be right inline with the benefits listed in this video. I don't see why it is necessary to assume we are losing this from of development when we lose cursive rather than finding the new areas that this skill is being developed.

[@SeijuroRen]

Maybe we should teach our kids short hand. Personally I can't type notes as fast as I write them by hand. It's especially hard when we have complex equations, or diagrams we need to transcribe. I also never really learned cursive, but I am considering learning now.

[@virgo15668]

Many good points. I have always felt this is a skill that is very important for our children and they are worth it! There truly is a great number of scientific research to back this up!

[@Hendlton]

Cursive is mandatory in our school.

[@AkatsukiLoverX3]

Cursive was taken out of the curriculum in my school, so I was never taught to read or write it. :P They say write in cursive, I say whatever. XD And I make them read the papers to me they write in that god-awefull penmanship excuse...

[@cursiveyes1941]

+ Hendlton I am happy to hear that,good news for my hears,thank you.

[@valsmith7993]

I love writing in cursive, I started to wright all my class notes in it. It made class a lot more interesting by making my biology notes beautiful.

[@valsmith7993]

Sometimes i get up in the morning and think "i dont give a fuck" and well, it just sticks with me all day.

[@WillBeHeroToy]

extremely true. when studying for exams and taking study notes by writing it helps me remember a lot easier than by typing it in

[@wrxbungle]

I wonder if there is a similar correlation between reading material on paper vs. on a screen. I'm 29 years old and I strongly prefer to read journal/research articles printed on paper so that I can FEEL it in my hands while I read, as well as highlight, scribble notes in the margins, blow my nose, etc. People not 2 years younger than me think I'm crazy because of this.

[@JasonCorfman]

I remember coming home from school one time when I was a kid (maybe third grade? Heck, I don't remember, that was 30+ years ago) and proudly proclaiming to my mom and my visiting grandmother that I was learning cursive! My grandmother wasn't familiar with that term and thought I meant I was learning how to curse. Fortunately, my mom knew what I meant and explained it to her, so I didn't get in trouble for learning how to curse at school. But I stopped writing in cursive in high school (maybe even earlier) because my handwriting is so atrocious. Sometimes, even I can't read my own writing, and I was constantly getting marks off from teachers because they couldn't read my homework or tests. (Even today, I tell people I have the penmanship of a doctor without that pesky medical degree or the money that comes with it.) So I print when I have to write, but even my printing is hard to read. If I need something to be legible, I type it. I do think students should be taught cursive, but I don't think it needs to become a large part of the curriculum.

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

When I was an underclassman in high school, I didn't even know how to read all the letters in cursive. My special education classes in elementary school neglected it. But that sort of pissed me off, so I kind of learned to write in really fancy cursive out of spite. Likewise because of my IEP I wasn't allowed to take a foreign language. I felt insulted by this and taught myself to be moderately fluent in German.

[@MewWolf5]

I learned cursive in 4th grade (for context, I'm graduating from high school this year). And then in 5th grade my teacher required us to write in printing again. However, I still use cursive when I write in my journal or write in my personal notebook.

[@HeyKevinYT]

ummm i have a question, when you said about writing cursive activates multiple parts of the brain unlike typing, I would like to know how... doesn’t typing also do so?

[@caffine8974]

I write in cursive because I was never taught to write in print. Everyone says it is very bad for me but I disagree. Thank you for the reassurance.

[@konthewondercow811]

In response to some comments: Many people use cursive still, but the problem is that some write cursive in a way that only they can read clearly. They over attach their letters for speed or put general loops for letters they think are obvious. So for them, the person presumably reading and writing it, they know what it means but if anyone else reads their work it's a mess.I can't tell you how many times I've traded notes with someone because I missed a class and I couldn't read anything they wrote because it was all in messy cursive. Even worse when I get hand written notes from my grandmother, can't read a damn thing even despite knowing cursive myself. That's one of the reasons that in a business environment you're basically required to communicate through print or digital text to eliminate poor communication. Unless your cursive is textbook perfect it's best to write anything in text if what you're writing is meant for others to read. "But that takes forever!" what? That seems like an issue that you've gone without using print for so long that it takes you noticeably more time to write in print than in cursive. Might want to practice writing in print here and there.

[@nicolereeds1524]

I know I'm the exception and not the rule, but I went into the school system computer literate, mainly because of my physical limitations. I can write by hand, and I did eventually learn cursive, but for me at least, it is physically painful. Instead of requiring me to write by hand during classes, the school allowed me to use a computer. This arrangement worked out fine with the teachers, I never fell behind my classmates, if anything I annoyed my teachers by completing my work too fast and reading "age inappropriate books" (Harry Potter). I believe it was third grade when Missouri mandated they teach us cursive and that is when I struggled. I honestly think that the time they spent dogging us on how horribly we wrote could have been spent on something like grammar, spelling, reading on level, study skills, etc. which I noticed a lot of my peers didn't develop over the years and are now suffering for it in college.

[@AelwynMr]

In Italy we are taught cursive at a very young age (I guess it's doable since we basically don't have to learn spelling). Few people write in pure cursive or print, with cursive being more common. Most just mix them up in their own way, commonly using print uppercase and cursive lowercase.

[@arnavgautam319]

The only reason I don’t write in cursive is pretty much the reason that some letters look so different to print (that everyone reads) while looking similar to another letter (T and F, in caps or b and l in small letters) these muddle up especially when we start writing fast or panic because of time-strains in exam (s).

[@horseandahalf]

Keep Cursive!!!! A personal letter with that personal style is way more gratifying for the writer and the reader than any email, blog post, text, tweet, online comment, etc. etc.

[@RoxanneM-]

Even the practice of writing legibly and an easy to understand cursive is a worthwhile practice that helps control emotions and enhances concentration as well as orderly thinking.

[@alitzergam915]

We started teaching cursive in kindergarten. My child's school has six classes in 3rd grade. It is up to each teacher to choose whether or not to teach cursive. The teachers who teach cursive are in high demand from parents. Sadly, due to that high demand, my child did not get into a cursive classroom. We still write in cursive at home. I wonder how the decline of cursive will impact the rest of her education? She has not been scolded for using cursive in school, but I worry about that happening. Luckily, all of her teachers throughout the rest of her school career will be old enough to have learned cursive. In another ten years, grade schoolers might not be allowed to write in cursive because their teachers might not know how to read it.