| ▲ | Swizec 6 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> In France, back when I went to school, not sure now, though I hope it hasn't changed, as a child, you'd only be allowed to use fountain pens. Kids learning to write have constantly stained hands while they learn to use it properly, almost as a rite of passage. I'm very thankful to have learned it like that. In Slovenia, back when I went to school, we all learned with fountain pens and cursive. From 1st to 8th grade you were required to write in fountain pain. If you turned in an assignment written in pencil, it was legit for the teacher to use their eraser and give you an F for turning in empty paper. (They never did this but threatened it a lot). As soon as high school hit, the restriction lifted and we could use any utensil and whatever font as long as it was legible. Everyone switched to ballpoint pens and some bastardized combination of print and cursive. I still use my specific combo of print and cursive today, it's like encryption. Very fast to write, very slow sometimes impossible to read. And that's okay, it turns out that anything I write down by hand gets etched into my memory forever. Just seeing the rough shape of the letters brings it back. Sometimes just seeing roughly what page of my notebook it's on is enough to remember what I was thinking. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nottorp 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> it turns out that anything I write down by hand gets etched into my memory forever That's an exam cramming technique regardless of handwriting quality :) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | privong 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> If you turned in an assignment written in pencil, it was legit for the teacher to use their eraser and give you an F for turning in empty paper. (They never did this but threatened it a lot). I find this slightly amusing/ironic because many (most?) fountain pen inks are not waterproof. I had a sheet of paper that was full of (fountain pen written) writing on my desk when I spilled a glass of water -- after the paper dried there was hardly any evidence that there had been writing on the paper. I know that's not the parent's point, but something turned in that was written with a fountain pen would be easier to remove: a teacher would just need to dunk the paper in water! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | senko 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> From 1st to 8th grade you were required to write in fountain pain. Fountain pens or ballpoint pens? (I do believe it was a fountain of pain either way :) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ljlolel 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The trick is to realize that you never even needed to write it at all | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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