Why is the pronoun "I" written with an uppercase letter, even when it's not at the beginning of a sentence?

Question

In the following sentence, the pronoun _I_ is written capitalized, even if it is not at the beginning of a sentence. Why? > What kind of questions can **I** ask here? should I capitalize all the pronouns?

Answer 1

The most important element of what I do is helping students truly write what they are passionate about. That passion makes all the difference in their writing.

A fair number of students have to be convinced that this is a place where it is totally appropriate to show off a bit

I also have students check their supplement questions before getting too involved to make certain they do not ask the same question, so the common app plans won't turn out to be repetitive.

Finally, helping students keep that high verbal energy and a final clincher for the end since it is what their readers will remember.

Answer 2

In English the only pronoun that we capitalize is "I." It is not for reasons of grammar. Those who have studied the matter believe that it has to do with the history of the printed word. An "i" alone on the page is easy to overlook, so scribes started to make it taller. This then became the standard. This New York Times article has some more history https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03wwln-guestsafire-t.html.