Handwriting has been _____  for about 6,000 years, just a small fraction of the time that humans have been on this earth, but its effects have been enormous.

It's hard to ______ the impact of this technology on those who up to that point could only see a blurred world.

But these experts admit that handwriting _____  indeed have a presence that is absent in typed prose.

The road to the west reveals the forest in all its______.

So, are we really ready to enter a world _____ the artistic flow of handwritten script might be about to disappear?

However, _____  that computers have taken over our world, the need to write anything by hand is becoming redundant.

Writing doesn't come naturally to us; _____  seeing and hearing, it must be taught.

Perhaps it's because we look through it, rather than at it, that glass fails to _______   to our emotions.

Over 400 years ago, the Italian inventor, Galileo, became the first person in history to use a telescope to ........ the night sky and see the solar system in all it's glory.

So when Galileo decided he wanted a telescope, he had a ________ tradition of glassmaking and highly skilled glassmakers who he could call on to provide him with a lens.

It takes up a lot of teaching time that could otherwise be devoted _____  keyboard skills

We are able to _______ on academic staff with a wide variety of expertise

Glass lenses were later ______ to many other uses, not least the invention of eye glasses