Comment by renewiltord

Interesting. My parents did all my handwriting practice when I was a child so that I could go out and play. Our school graded on exams and labs alone which I aced. My handwriting remained rubbish as I aced my undergraduate program, remained rubbish as I started work in software, and has remained rubbish as I've climbed from success to success.

Contra-other-posts, I don't think I would have learned anything of value from handwriting. Perhaps my exam scores would have been higher as some things weren't misunderstood.

I also relied on zero notes during lectures, instead finding that close attention lead to near complete recall in class, but I suffered when I tried taking notes as an experiment. My Algebraic Geometry class was a complete disaster.

Ideally, if I had to make tradeoffs, my children would be like me: with good alphanumeric and concept recall from memory. I think it is superior to note-taking.