En Pizarras y Pizarrones hemos desarrollado un trabajo de campo cuyo objetivo es analizar las preferencias en lecto-escritura de nuestros lectores, así como las nuevas formas de enseñanza y aprendizaje. Les hemos pedido su colaboración para completar una pequeña encuesta anónima que como máximo les insumiría 10 minutos. Agradecemos su participación! La encuesta cerró el 31-08-17 y en unos pocos días publicaremos sus resultados...

jueves, 13 de octubre de 2011

LA ESCRITURA CURSIVA. G. Jaim Etcheverry


(*) El autor (ex rector de la Universidad de Buenos Aires) es educador y ensayista

1 comentario:

Estela Laura G.de White dijo...

It really made me happy that someone else was mourning the disappearance of cursive writing. Here in the United States most children do not know how to write their own names. Everything is done by computer and knowledge is acquired through the Internet, which is a marvelous development but it has many bad side effects, like when we take the wrong medication. Now, we have too many Virtual Universities tha give instruction to students up to a Ph.D. in any discipline. I do not like these institutions and do not trust their degrees. The sense of going to a place to learn from our teachers and exchange information with fellow students is going to be a thing of the past twenty years from now. I was lucky to be able to study at the University of Chicago and I would not trade those years for anything. Meeting people from all over the world and being able to take classes from famous and excellent teachers was incomparable to any thing I ever did. We still wrote on blackboards, the professors did too and cursive writing was not something that anyone was going to discard, not in the early nineteen eighties. In the sixties I was lucky to be able to study at the University of Buenos Aires and obtain my first advanced degree. Everything was done by hand. Our professors built a whole universe for us with a piece of chalk and a blackboard. All our written exams were handwritten. The education I received in Argentina was in no way inferior to the one I got in the US. In fact it was the other way around. I am retired now and in my early seventies and I have a dozen friends who communicate with each other by handwritten letters. We cherish each of these because the soul of the writer is imbedded in each beautifully written sentence.

I am very pleased to have found your site and I hope to keep reading essays from Doctor Guillermo Jaim Echeverry, an extraordinary man, whom I had the pleasure to meet fifty years ago. Estela Laura G. de White