Posted by MarkB_MI on October 20, 2011 at 03:03:40 from (166.217.135.87):
In Reply to: Re: What ??????? posted by Old Roy on October 19, 2011 at 18:44:18:
I'm not sure what you just said. And I don't think I'd understand it any better if you wrote it in cursive!
In the nineteenth century, penmanship was taught because it was an important skill. Handwritten letters and documents were how people communicated. On the other hand, I doubt much time was spent on finance, since few people had the opportunity to make investments. Bookkeeping yes, but finance no.
Now skip ahead 150 years to the present day. There's not much call for penmanship; it's mainly a social skill. On the other hand, nearly everyone participates in the financial market, through loans and investments. Yet I'll bet more students graduate from high school with good penmanship skills than know how to calculate the Present Value of an investment. Sure, there's a lot of garbage taught in schools, but that doesn't mean we need to teach skills that are rapidly becoming archaic.
An interesting thing is how quickly some modern-day skills become outdated. Forty years ago computer keypunch was taught in many schools, and there were plenty of jobs for keypunch operators. Today the only place you'll find a keypunch machine is in a museum.
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