My parents both had terrible handwriting, I struggled to read letters from them - especially my mother. Some very intelligent people, with high levels of education, have bad handwriting - I don't think bad handwriting has much to do with levels of education, what they write may do though. You could have beautiful handwriting but terrible spelling and grammar, or the opposite could be true.
My handwriting is terrible, typing comes much more easily to me - my hand stiffens up very quickly when I'm writing.
I remember having penmanship lessons when we were at school abroad, one of my favourite classes. You'd never know it, reading my messy scrawl!
i never said bad handwriting was a marker for low intelligence or low levels of education muggins
the levels i spoke of to noodkleoptra were referring to noody saying they are teaching kids with "appalling handwriting" in the post i was replying to.
Sadly it's ideas such as this that have lead to our future generations not being able to write properly or hold a pen, nor can they spell, and more often than not it's that 'text speak'. It's all tick boxes, spell check and C U L8R rubbish. >:(
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i never said bad handwriting was a marker for low intelligence or low levels of education muggins
the levels i spoke of to noodkleoptra were referring to noody saying they are teaching kids with "appalling handwriting" in the post i was replying to.