The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School

Hugh Pickens writes "With the perspective of forty-plus years since my graduation, I would say the single most useful course I took in high school was a business class in touch-typing that gave me a head start for writing and with computers that I have benefited from my entire life. So it was with particular interest that I read Gordon Rayner's essay in the Telegraph proposing that schools add a mandatory course in touch typing to the cornerstones of education: reading, writing and arithmetic. 'Regardless of the career a child takes up when they leave school, a high percentage of them will use a keyboard in their daily work, and all of them are likely to use a keyboard in their leisure time,' writes Rayner. 'Touch-typing would help every child throughout their lives — so why are our schools so blind to this?'"

Comments

TOUCH typing?

[WebHikerOriginal]

um, what other kind of typing is there? or is this "touch typing" just another retarded redundant Americanism that slithered on to the radar recently?

Re:Schools dont change

[Mr. Freeman]

You listed two studies. I'm going to assume that there's probably a few hundred in the area. How in the fuck does 2 studies represent "every study in the area".

You've given me a 2/200 = .5% sample AT BEST.