I learned cursive in elementary school. Once I got the hang of it, life was great. Legible handwriting was never my strong point, but at least with cursive I could easily tell where one word ended and another started. With print writing, you had to find spaces that were slightly larger than the spaces between letters. Lame.
In recent years, print-writing has corrupted my autopilot. I swear I've caught myself switching from cursive to print or vice-versa mid sentence. Luckily, pretty much the only time I'm handwriting is when taking personal notes in class. There is a major shift towards digitization.
Interestingly enough, in Canada they want to stop teaching cursive. Here's a starter link that I couldn't be bothered to read more than a paragraph of:
http://www.todaysparent.com/family/education/cursive-writing-in-schools/You know what else they tried teaching in my elementary school? How to type without looking at the keyboard, index fingers on F and J style. Never got the hang of that. I type so much faster when I look at the keyboard and type freestyle, mostly with my index fingers.
Does anyone here type without looking at the keyboard?