Who Cares About Cursive? Kids Don’t Learn to Churn Butter Anymore, Either.
Readers respond to articles in our October and November issues.
Cursive Is History
Gen Z never learned to read cursive, Drew Gilpin Faust wrote in the October 2022 issue. How will they interpret the past?
Drew Gilpin Faust’s article on students’ inability to read cursive reminded me of a similar lack of knowledge that I encountered years ago, when I was teaching at the University of Colorado. I had assigned my students timed presentations. There were no clocks in our classrooms (supposedly too distracting), so I brought in a portable analog clock. To my surprise, none of my students could read it—they only told time on their cellphones.
Naomi Rachel
Boulder, Colo.
As a professional calligrapher, an advocate for the continued practice of cursive, and a lover of
