They should have never stopped teaching cursive either. If you cant read/write cursive you can't read THE FUCKING DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Archive: https://archive.today/kmBUy From the post: >>There is no assessment more objective than a written exam in an ancient language. Such a test measures recall of and facility with a language that exists only on the printed page, one governed by a finite number of grammatical indices and surviving texts. For a specialist in ancient languages, translation is at the heart of demonstrating such objective skills.