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Necessity of better handwriting

Anup Kumar Das
Necessity of better handwriting

Handwriting is a great human skill and we must preserve the quality of handwriting. We need education in every home. Handwriting is needed not only for the students in our country but also around the world. There is a special need to fine-tune handwriting so that students do not have bad handwriting. No matter what computer works in schools, colleges and universities we must pass by handwriting. There is no alternative to it. Better handwriting is not something that is difficult. You have to practice ten minutes every day for ninety days.    

 If a student can memorise Bangla and English beautifully, why not handwriting is better? I have been researching on this for a long time. Handwriting is my only meditation. There are some basic strokes that should be learned to make handwriting really better. First of all, we must learn these strokes with interest. Handwriting wouldn't be better if one couldn't learn the strokes. There are some rules to make handwriting better, such as, how to hold the pen, how to put the book in front, how to sit properly. Cambridge University teachers do not understand what students write. Sometimes, the students are called to the hall room and asked “What did you write the answer to the questions 5 or 7?” This situation should not be happened in our country. Heritage School is very much interested to improve its  students’  handwriting and calligraphy and the school has taken a decision to make some handwriting and calligraphy books.

Students should remember that what they read should be written correctly. The writing should be transparent and beautiful. Handwriting is a great human resource. We need to retain this wealth. If I am born as a human, I have to write.

If I try a little I can make my handwriting beautiful. It is a huge achievement of the government that every year it is distributing  40,00,00,000 books for free, but, if some handwriting learning books are given, then writing will be very strong. If this effort continues, no handwriting will be bad for our students after 2021. So many days are observed in our country, why not Handwriting Day?

  I hope the government will keep a close eye on better handwriting. If the quality of the education is improved better quality of handwriting will be possible.

First of all, teachers need to learn this. If teachers do not know the skill of better writing, then who will teach the students? Eighty per cent of the teachers do not have better handwriting in our country. Teachers need special training in this regard.

I have conducted handwriting workshops at many schools, colleges and universities. Seeing the encouragement of the students I was very much overwhelmed.  It was then that I realised that students are very much interested in learning. But there is no teaching initiative, no planning. What is organized is extremely rare. Everyone has to learn, to teach.

 The writer teaches handwriting and calligraphy at Heritage School, Chashara, Narayanganj

 

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Editorial, News & Commercial Offices : Beximco Media Complex, 149-150 Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. GPO Box No. 934, Dhaka-1000.

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