A 2021 study in Frontiers in Psychology found that students who wrote notes by hand demonstrated significantly better recall and conceptual understanding than those who typed. The reason is simple: handwriting is slower, and that slowness forces the brain to process, select, and synthesize rather than transcribe passively.
Classical educators have always known this. Copywork and dictation — two staples of the Charlotte Mason method — aren't busywork. They're precision instruments for training attention, spelling, grammar, and beautiful expression, all at once.
At Saints Classical, students write by hand daily. Not because we're against technology, but because the hand trains the mind — and we're in the business of training minds.