These days the only time I wield the pen is to sign cheques!! I had quite a lousy hand-writing which affected quite a few grades in school and college! In fact, I am surprised how I ever passed some of my engineering papers. By the time I finished scribbling on the last ream of paper, it was illegible to even me!!
Anyways am happy, I don't have to wield the pen any more. On MS Word, finally I have caught up with some of my more calligraphically gifted school friends:-)
Hopefully, in another couple of years, with speech recognition software getting better, my slow typing speed will also cease to be a handicap...
Maybe finally the thinking > typing > writing...
I wonder of what use are the hand-writing sessions that my 4 year old son Neo under-takes...He will learn wriitng only to never use it in later life...Why don't schools teach typing instead. Make it compulsory...
And why don't we teach better thinking tools in schools. We need better thinkers in larger numbers today, far more than guys with great hand-writing....
1 comment:
dont agree to you about the typing bit.. because everything has its own merits and demerits.. childhood is increasingly geting technical in these times and i dnt think todays kids really have the great childhood experience of playing in the streets, becoming dirty and doing those really childlike things.. they seem to be growing up a little too soon..
also not necessarily would you have a typing equipment available all the time.. the old pen and paper is always a pal for the great thinkers to jot things in a jiffy anywhere.. instead of taking out your gadget and wasting 5 minutes..whatever be the handwriting its yours to understand after a point mostly.. and i think thats fine..
Also the technology advancement takes a negative toll on all our healths.. and maybe neo should have fun for as long as he can because dont think beyond a point he would be able to avoid all of this.. and it sucks.. i now know wen i have to visit 15 docs withso much complaints inall my body parts.. i'm 23 and i feel already everything is cracking up.. its scary..
As far as thinkers are concerned its realy required to change the system of education in our country.. maybe concentrate more at an early age to figure the inclination of the kids towards particular subjects and make them concentrate more on those than the whole world.. this whole board exam fever that i see on tv irritates me exactly the way it used to wen i gave my boards. man thats some pressure and i think most students fuck up because of the extremem pressure rather than not knowing or studying because byt he end of it u r so nervous with your neighbours, your neighbours parents, your neighbours servants, etc's expectations of your results in these boards..
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