In today’s digital daily life, we constantly type in computers and smartphone and where and where we write some notes or some hand shopping list. We rarely send letters, and much more often emails. In the digital age, we now find the syntax of large texts by hand extremely painful.

We learn to write in childhood and everyone develops their own separate writing. But without routine and control, our writing fades. Writing problems have long been a social problem that is not just about students, as it is often supported.

The German Union for Education and Education for years has denounced the reduction of skills and increasing motor problems among school age children. More and more children are experiencing problems to write legible and quickly.

Favors brain growth

The typing has become unbeatable, especially for larger texts. Automatic correction makes writing faster, more readable and less painful. However, writing causes the brain more than typing and thus also promotes learning. A 2024 Norwegian study found that hand -in -law increased brain activity precisely in areas of the brain that are important for learning.

Also, when one writes, the eyes and the brain are constantly watching if the fingers guide the pen properly, apply the right pressure and if clean lines are created during writing. This requires very accurate coordination between optical and motor processes. Writing is slower than typing, but this is not necessarily a disadvantage. Natural slowness forces us to process the information more intensively.

Do we forget a skill that has been around for thousands of years?

Writing by hand is an ancient sample of culture. Thousands of years ago, people carved information on clay or stone or wrote in ink in parchment or papyrus. Until the invention of typography, the manuscript was the only way to record the language.

The oldest writing is about 5,000 to 6,000 years. The Sumerians in today’s Iraq have developed a wedge writing they used to manage their trade. This writing consisted of about 900 iconograms and ideograms.

Over time, various types of writing evolved and we reached the present alphabet.

In the past, writing was intended only for minorities, nobles, intellectuals and traders. The fact that so many people can read and write today has changed with the introduction of compulsory education in the 20th century.

In 1820, only 12% of humanity worldwide could read and write. Today, the rate has been reversed. According to UNESCO, only about 13% of people around the world cannot read or write. Half of about 765 million illiterate live in South Asia and more than a quarter in sub -Saharan Africa. Two -thirds of illiterate people in the world are women.