It is said, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” King Pyrrhus said his adviser, “Cineas had taken more towns with his words than he with his arms.” So, it is important that one develop proficiency in handwriting. Careless, crowded, unconventional, sloppy, hard-to-read penmanship cripples students. Good, neat, proficient penmanship benefits students in many ways, especially in taking good notes when necessary.
Based on elementary education — starting in the primer at Sandy Gavin and passing to the first grade for two months before transferring to Nora Davis in the 1950s — since the 1980s, the writer has taken issue with students not learning good penmanship and cursive. In too many cases, penmanship is illegible and hard to decipher. It is a hodge-podge of manuscript, cursive, upper and lowercase letters, sometimes flowing and joined together, and other times disconnected — with little adherence to the rules of majuscule and minuscule cases.
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