kcshooter ~
Back a hundred years ago or so, schoolteachers all believed that left-handedness was simply a crutch, a case of the kid being stubborn, and that anyone could be taught to be right-handed.
Were they technically correct? I suppose so; entire generations of schoolchildren were forced to "be" right-handed, whether their personal wiring supported that practice or not. So technically, they were correct: any school child could be taught to be right-handed.
But among those students were a significant number of children who never did learn to write as easily, as quickly, as fluently, as they would have learned if they had been taught in accordance with their built-in wiring rather than in opposition to it. And the record also shows that lefties were far more likely than righties to drop out of school and thus never learn to write at all.
Appropos of nothing much...
pax
Back a hundred years ago or so, schoolteachers all believed that left-handedness was simply a crutch, a case of the kid being stubborn, and that anyone could be taught to be right-handed.
Were they technically correct? I suppose so; entire generations of schoolchildren were forced to "be" right-handed, whether their personal wiring supported that practice or not. So technically, they were correct: any school child could be taught to be right-handed.
But among those students were a significant number of children who never did learn to write as easily, as quickly, as fluently, as they would have learned if they had been taught in accordance with their built-in wiring rather than in opposition to it. And the record also shows that lefties were far more likely than righties to drop out of school and thus never learn to write at all.
Appropos of nothing much...
pax