Is Cursive Writing a Lost Art?

Is Cursive Writing a Lost Art?
Writing by Daniel Shi, the winner of the cursive category of Zaner-Bloser's Nicholas Maxim Award, at the Borough Park Library in Brooklyn, New York, June 2, 2014. (Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times)
The Reader's Turn
7/25/2017
Updated:
7/9/2020

This is in reference to an article written by Ryan Moffatt in the Epoch Times, July 21-27, 2017. I have been aware for a while that cursive writing has been dropped from the curriculum in Ontario schools. I agree entirely with Mr. Moffatt that students should be efficient in handwriting. It is somewhat pathetic to watch a grown man or woman printing information instead of writing. This is something that should not be replaced with a keyboard of any kind.

I was very surprised when I noticed that my grandchildren did not know how to do cursive writing and then said “we don’t need to learn that in school anymore.” Is this a lost art? I think handwriting defines a person. As Mr. Moffatt states in his article, cursive writing style has its place and it would be a mistake to dismiss it entirely.

Surely, a half hour a day would not eat into kids’ computer and tablet sessions and would certainly make note-taking an easier task. Or has that disappeared also?

Concerned grandmother Eleanor Lowe Kingston, Ont.