Advocates for learning cursive including idaho representative linden bateman 72 argue that more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard. While electronic devices have added an element of convenience to the writing process evidence is mounting that putting pen to paper has benefits that typing cannot replace. Cursive Seemed To Go The Way Of Quills And Parchment Now It S Last despite all the screaming we hear on the news most schools haven t cut cursive writing. Why did cursive writing start . Researchers have found ties between writing by hand and everything from language skills to memory to critical thinking. The word has a broader meaning than we usually give it today where we think of cursive as writing that is joined with loops. If so many parents feel that good penmanship and learning cursive are important to a person s development why are our schools doing away with it. There are two basic forms of cursive tha...