Endangered Practices

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Endangered Practices

I fear the future will not stand
for communication writ by hand.
E-mail, Instragram and text
is current and what’s coming next
could well be texting brain-to-brain.
Practice your penmanship in vain,
for in most schools, it’s been junked.
Writing by hand has gone defunct!!

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16 thoughts on “Endangered Practices”

  1. phoartetry's avatarphoartetry

    You can say (type) that again. I must say, I write everything I post, first on paper then one-fingered typing on my IPad, but I know what you mean. (I don’t even text or twitter,)

    Connie

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I do scribble notes. Hard to stick a text up on the fridge. But I must admit, I don’t write much either. Still, I think it is an important skill to have.

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  3. Pat Gentilini Warrick's avatarPat Gentilini Warrick

    I know a teenage boy who was getting his driver’s license. He had his mother teach him how to sign in cursive for the license. He practiced and practiced for the signature. The mom said he wasn’t worried at all about the actual driving test, it was the signature on the license that stressed him out. What a shame. .

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  4. Scott's avatarScott

    I see your point, but we should never forget how to record our thoughts in cursive and other basic modes. It’s portable, requires no external power source, and it’s extremely portable. It works on the beach as well as it works at 70,000 feet. One of the flights over China’s man made islands was reported by the network news. I watched Navy men use high tech instrumentation to check whatever they were checking, but they used pencil and paper to record their conclusions. Attorneys use pencil and a legal pad to sum up what their clients want done. And I often use pencil and paper while brainstorming for topics of interest.

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  5. calensariel's avatarcalensariel

    Well I was going to write pretty much the same thing, but you beat me to it! I just keep wonder how in world people are going to get away without writing when it comes to legal signatures… We’re making our students lazy underachievers, imho.

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