I remember a time when my classmates and I were taught handwriting in school and had to practise pages and pages (at least in my memory but as a child everything appears to be a lot) of how to write the individual letters of the German alphabet correctly. We even got marks on how beautiful our handwriting was back in elementary school.
These days are definitely over! The reality in schools is that already today devices play a bigger part in modern classrooms. A good thing you might say as nobody should be judged for bad handwriting? Let’s see, as there are also benefits to still writing cursive.
I have also realized about myself that the more I’m using technology and devices the worse my handwriting gets. I’m not able to write as quickly as I was used to, and I also think it’s not as beautiful as it once was. I wouldn’t go so far to say that I’m at risk of unlearning it but my handwriting has become untrained, increasingly now as the majority of my work day takes place in front of one or the other device and includes pen and paper less and lesser.
