After a decade of teaching middle-school and high-school students, I had decided that the ability to write attractive, legible penmanship with ease was as important as it was endangered. But it wasn't until I read the essay to which I've linked below that I knew
why that ability was important.
I first encountered Christina Hoff Sommers in her books
Who Stole Feminism? and
The War Against Boys, two of the best books on contemporary issues that I've ever read. Meanwhile, here's a sample of the good professor's own handwriting:
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