Even though I’m a younger person (re: “millennial” ) I don’t understand the weird aversion to handwriting that people can have. I can get not writing essays/reports by hand anymore, but what’s wrong with note taking by hand, or god forbid writing letters and notes to people. Parents (at least mine) LOOOOVE hand…

I taught myself (lefthanded male) to write neatly because I’m a writer, and I learned in high school that many writers drafted longhand. It took a few years, but I write with almost calligraphic neatness, and quickly. It helped train me to write neatly on white-boards, too. As a teacher, that’s more than worth the…

Summary: The key reason why we are able to learn better by handwritting...

I figured out like halfway into my college career that trying to take notes on my laptop was actually miserable and of course, distracting (for myself and for everyone else around me), so once the novelty of carrying around a laptop to class inevitably fizzled away, I started taking notes by hand and realized it…

Why all the cursive haters? I find it easier than non cursive, you get into a rhythm with it.