Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by sdoering on Friday August 24, 2012 @03:12AM (#4426569)

I have been lucky, not being punished for writing with my left hand. My mother was forced to write with her right hand. But even in the 1980s pupils in Germany were forced to write with the right (in both meanings) hand.

We now know a lot more, about what this does to a child's brain, but then, teachers just believed to be right.

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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by btilly on Friday August 24, 2012 @04:06AM (#4426705)

I knew a left-handed math prof who had had that treatment growing up in Holland. But he'd developed a party trick.

One day he told us about this. And said that the result was that he could write with both hands. Different things. He demonstrated. Wrote with both hands at once, different things, on 2 neighboring boards. Kept on writing. Got to the bottom of the boards. Then turned around, began lecturing from the first board, reached the bottom, and continued the lecture from the second. He had laid out the boards perfectly to do this.

It was a very impressive party trick.

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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by eru on Friday August 24, 2012 @08:32AM (#4427264)

We had a slightly less impressive professor, who erased with the right and wrote with the left. Also at the same time.

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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by slurgfest on Friday August 24, 2012 @11:31AM (#4428037)

It doesn't do anything to a child's brain, it's just gratuitously cruel. That is reason enough. But many people the world over learn to eat or whatever with a certain hand and it does not hurt their brain.

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