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Grant Dai
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Something here has always struck me as odd.

The more developed society gets, the less anyone writes by hand once they start working. Typing replaced the pen, and handwriting fell off a cliff.

Yet for the first ten or twenty years of our lives — all of them pointed at jobs where we'll type all day — school insists we record everything with pen and paper. There has to be a scientific reason behind that. Why does learning, of all things, have to happen on paper?

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