News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark. Parent comment

Re:India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark by bad_extension on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:37PM (#26231628)
In my country it generally works the same (as writing with fountain pen is enfoced in primary schools), but after "ballpoint" phase during college some people go back to fountain pens, as they are seen as more classy and elegent writing tool.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark by throwawayboise on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:46PM (#26231699)
Which country is that?

My experience, and that of my kids (in USA) is that pencil is used through high school for daily work. When I was in school, final drafts of essays or other papers could be in ink or typed. Math and science was always done in pencil. Today, pretty much everything written is submitted by computer. Kids can barely print legibly, forget about cursive writing or any care for penmanship.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark by zwirbl on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @04:53AM (#26235509)
Pencils are not valid for most (all?) exams in the kindof high school I went to and definitely not valid in university exams (in Austria). It's just too easy to fake afterwards
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:India's artisanal fountain pens are making their mark by luplex on Monday February 22, 2021 @06:15PM (#26231959)
This is what I see in Germany. A few people stuck with fountain pens thorough high school, but I think moist people switched to ballpoint or fineliners. I don't have a particularly nice handwriting, and a fountain pen would not help with that. So it's not worth the fuss.
[ Parent | on HN ]