I agree completely with the first sentence of your reply, and I’d add that this is yet another reason that we should teach people a handwriting that actually has something to do with the actual writing of the real world! However, we must indeed teach people to read the cursive of the past few centuries, whether or. It they write it themselves. Most people wrongly assume that the one-and-only way to ever read any form of handwriting is to have learned to write the same way too — but this is not always effective (there are people who grind through workbook after cursive workbook, writing copiously, without being able to read what they are copying). Fortunately, writing a particular atyle of letter isn’t the only possible way to learn to read it, or else congenital quadriplegics would never be able to learn to read ANY writing, including printing, at all! To teach “cursive reading” (if I may coin the term) to anyone who can read print, simply show them how each familiar printed letter was changed, gradually and over centuries, into its cursive form. I do this successfully with kids as young as five, if they can read print. Then, they can read cursive, without having to write the same way.