High School Typing Class

It’s funny how the world can change in 30 years. Much knowledge becomes outdated, yet “the basics” remain useful. I remember my High School typing class. The teacher was a no-nonsense drill sergeant of an older lady, who could instill fear into the hearts of her students. Her mission was to teach not just the mechanics of typing, but to instill in her students a sense of price in their work and themselves. She always told us that typing was “a GOOD skill, not a HALF-BAKED skill”. We were required to learn the keyboard through “touch” and if she caught anyone looking at their fingers, they were held up for ridicule in front of the whole class. The typewriters we used had blank keys- no letters. This was to discourage cheating. The class consisted mainly View the rest of this article