Does your school teach typing?

[attrayant]

Mine does. In an enormous room reminiscent of the typing pools of the 1940's:

I don't think I've seen a typewriter being used in any office in the past ten years or more (and I've been in some pretty dilapidated office buildings in Thailand). I don't believe there is even a company that makes them any more. Perhaps you could find one at a pawn shop, but good luck finding supplies & parts for it.

I sometimes wonder what kind of 21st century jobs my school is preparing its students for.

Edited October 12, 2014 by attrayant

[noahvail]

Royal still makes one model of a portable manual typewriter. I learned on an ancient 1932 office Underwood, which was great for building strength in my hands for playing the piano. But when I went to work for a company that had just bought IBM XT computers, single floppy disk, no hard drive, I'd go through a keyboard every two weeks or so. But touch-typing has stood me in good stead lo these many years, and I don't think it's a bad thing for the kids to learn to touch type. Of course, there are apps out there that teach it on the computer, which would make more sense.

[Scott]

I can type at over 120 words per minute. Touch typing was probably one of the most valuable classes I ever took. Shorthand on the other hand seldom gets used -- but once in a while in a meeting I do use it.