Wordorigins.org

Back in February 2008, Anne Trubek wrote an article for Good advocating that penmanship no longer be taught in schools. What is surprising is the vehemence with which people reacted to the idea that we should stop ranking children on what is an antiquated and irrelevant skill. Over 2,000 people wrote comments in complaint—some 700 of which had to be deleted for violating standards of decency. Would these people also have us require all children to learn horsemanship as well?

Trubek has followed up with a longer article on the history of handwriting. Her original article is here.