Matt Whitling says that because of the general disinterest in the topic and the advent of technology, “this is becoming an increasingly easy question to answer.” He states that classical, Christian schools should continue to work hard on handwriting and maintain “an attentiveness to aesthetics that is not anywhere else.” We should “continue to devote time to teaching [our] kids to create beautiful words as they are young and learning to write” so that we can make a key point of distinction from the world by the example of our “neat, clean and graceful handwriting.”
[from Grammar School Christian Worldview lecture from ACCS 2008 conference]
