Handwriting: An Elegy

I will be saddened if children a generation or two don’t learn to write. I use a fairly expensive Cross fountain pen. I even have a quill and inkpot. So I will never cease to use handwriting, but even I struggle with cursive these days and I don’t know if any of my sisters’ children can use it at all, except to sign their name.

Also, as an argument for handwriting, there was this tidbit from the article:

Some research suggests that the conjunction of brain and writing hand is possibly more efficient.