Psychology Today: Learning cursive is better for your brain.

Boiled down:
Cursive requires more brain power and is more demanding than to print and type. As the author of the piece, Dr. William Klemm, suggests, penmanship "letters are less stereotypical, and the visual recognition requirements create a broader repertoire of letter representation." Children learning and using cursive also have more "adult-like" brain scans than children who just print and type.

Does this lead to smarter children? I don't know. But I do know that I love that someone referred to letters as "less stereotypical."

Even letters have to deal with the horrors of stereotyping.