A Swiss video: http://avisdexperts.ch/videos/view/2626/2
Claire Clivaz, theologian at UNIL. The use of the pen is threatened by keyboards and keypads, even at school. The United States has adopted an education program which, from 2015, will make optional the teaching of traditional cursive writing in favor of scriptwriting, considered more readable, and more in line with keyboard writing.
And the phenomenon in the USA:
Less and less American students master classical calligraphy, abandoned in favor of computer keyboards and printing letters.
There will come a day when we will not be able to write anymore. And this day may be here, in the United States at least. Monica, 16, a student at a high school in California, already feels that writing as an attache is useless. Schoolwork must be typed on the computer, and for personal messages, there are e-mails, says the girl. So, when she takes - rarely - the pen, Monica uses print letters. "Nobody ever forced us to use cursive writing, so it was painful to memorize the letters," says the teenager who even has difficulty deciphering what her parents write.
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