Louis Hanson’s social media post on pen licences provoked a cacophony of responses, all passionate and all caused by the prepubescent pursuit to use a pen.Louis Hanson’s social media post on pen licences provoked a cacophony of responses, all passionate and all caused by the prepubescent pursuit to use a pen.ew schooling practices elicit a polarising reaction among Australian adults quite like the pen licence does.
Gone were the days of the eraser. If I made a spelling error, I’d simply cross it out and leave the crossed out mess right there on the page. It didn’t matter to me: after all, it was in! What a marvel! . A cacophony of devastated recollections or superiority complexes, all caused by the prepubescent pursuit to use a pen
And it’s this very passion that sheds light on the way in which certain seemingly-trivial practices throughout tweenhood – like the pen licence – linger on into adulthood, impacting us in more ways that we could have anticipated.