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Lies you were told as a kid?
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"You're going to have to write everything in cursive so it's important that you learn it"
And it was literally never required in school or life after that.
You don't use cursive when you write checks?
checks... hah found the dinosaur... /s i'm in my 50's
I have a checkbook; I write one a year for a service that is a pain in the butt about check-by-mail only. While i do use cursive for that, there's absolutely no reason to.
Check washers didn't just make slight changes to your checks (000/100) and cash them, they used the right solvents and removed all the ink except for the signature and made them out for as much as they wanted.
Your signature doesn't even need to be cursive.
I was being silly and sardonic. I still use checks, but I know it is waaaay outside the norm and anachronistic.
This one is funny for me. I write almost exclusively in cursive, with a fountain pen, and for a while I drove a stick-shift car and wore a mechanical analog watch.
I do/did those things because I appreciate the extra attention that it takes to do/use them. I think there is a certain fulfillment that you get from doing everyday things in an older or archaic way.
I also think that schools and education for children should be about fostering an innate sense of curiosity and self-impovement/fulfillment. In that light, I think schools should teach some of those outdated, more cultural topics, for the same reason that we teach poetry, or literature. I don't think we should be grading kids on it though, or failing them because they can't read an analog clock.