Dear Editor:
In her Sept. 20/21 column, Rose Nolen bemoaned the casual of autography apprenticeship in our schools. I allotment her concerns. Sadly, the Sedalia academy arrangement is amid those that no best advise cursive.
The accepted analysis of articulacy acclimated to be the adeptness to address one's name. The benighted fabricated an "X." To affirmation to be an accomplished being today and not be able to assurance your name strikes me as an oxymoron.
Those who cannot address cursive additionally accept adversity account it. There are a lot of ancestors treasures tucked abroad in attics that will be around aloof to advancing generations.
I anamnesis my father's admirable handwriting, a adventurous vertical calligraphy that the pharmacists in boondocks (he was a doctor) could calmly read. His characteristic autography was allotment of who he was, and the aforementioned could be said for all of us. To lose that character is no baby matter.
As a writer, I consistently do my aboriginal abstract with pen in hand, which seems to accommodate a absolute centralized affiliation amid me and the cardboard that cyberbanking accessories can't duplicate. Only after do I go to the keyboard.
Today, if the adolescent bearing has charge of the accounting chat at all, they "text." Technology marches on, but in my assessment we've alone article important forth the way.
Doug Kneibert
Sedalia
Title : Cursive autography a dying art form
Description : Dear Editor: In her Sept. 20/21 column, Rose Nolen bemoaned the casual of autography apprenticeship in our schools. I allotment her conc...