For more than a decade, Millie Pryles has spent a half-hour each day standing over second graders at the Westminster schools in Atlanta, making them trace and retrace the ovals, loops and humps that will become their cursive handwriting. It is a discipline she knows is fast becoming a lost art.
“Both feet on the floor,” she tells her 7- and 8-year-olds. “Sit up straight and slant your book.” After she explains how to form a letter, the children get to work. When some falter, Mrs. Pryles guides their hands.
In this computer age, such attention to the fine points of writing has been all but erased from the country’s classrooms as a revolution has occurred in how penmanship is taught and practiced. The lessons have become sporadic. Cursive writing is giving way to printing.
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One of the best reasons to learn face reading is not only to understand where someone is coming from, or predict how they might act. It’s to better respect their opinions and beliefs, which can be so different from our own, and as a result avoid conflict and resentment and encourage diplomacy.
This is great fodder for business people. In a nutshell, understanding and patience often are required to do bigger and better business. Plus, knowing what to look for in new employees or partners can turn a floundering company around.
Personal facial profiling can be a miracle for romantic partners who aim to get along with each other for the rest of their lives. If we can appreciate the other’s sensitivities – or lack of them – we can downplay the annoyance we feel for the seemingly senseless emotions and actions of our partner.
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