What a Norwegian Brain Study Reveals About Handwriting

Why teach handwriting when everyone types? This Classical Et Cetera makes the case for penmanship in a classical education—and the reasons run deeper than nostalgia. Veteran first-grade teacher Julia Lasoi joins us to explain what handwriting forms in a child that a keyboard never will: from the Norwegian brain research on writing by hand, to the discipline and beauty of forming each letter, to the surprising return of mandated cursive in America. Browse our penmanship curriculum right here! https://www.memoriapress.com/penmanship/?utm_source=PodBean&utm_medium=CETC&utm_campaign=235

*What We're Reading* from This Episode:

"Between Shades of Gray" Ruta Sepetys (Tanya)

"A Natural History of Dragons" Marie Brennan (Tanya)

"The Glassmaker" Tracy Chevalier (Tanya)

"A History of Philosophy: Volume I" Frederick Copleston (Martin)

"The Screwtape Letters" C.S. Lewis (Julia)

"Battling Unbelief" John Piper (Julia)