Remarks upon the education of deaf mutes : in defence of the doctrines of the second annual report of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities and in reply to the charges of the Rev. Collins Stone.

  • Samuel Gridley Howe
Date:
1866
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Credit: Remarks upon the education of deaf mutes : in defence of the doctrines of the second annual report of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities and in reply to the charges of the Rev. Collins Stone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If pressed, they are repelled Avith sensitiveness, and sometimes with asperity; as though they were considered impertinent interference; and yet any citizen of Massachusetts, at least, has a right to press them, because about half the pupils of the school are beneficiaries of this State. The late lamented Horace Mann, Secretary of' the Massachusetts Board of Education, proposed a i great modification of the system of instruction;; and brought powerful arguments and stubborni facts to the support of his views. But he failed I to effect any material change. The Asylum yielded! a little for a time, under his vigorous attacks, butt swung back to its old moorings; and, held fastt by the anchor of conservatism, breasts the tide of is progressive ideas which sweep by it. i In France, Dr. Blanchet, connected with the: it Imperial Institution for Deaf Mutes, has long been: e advocating still greater changes in the system of ^ educating these unfortunates. His views are inge- nious and plausible, and have found considerable'! favor. j; The Minister of Public Instruction, in a very) able Circular to the Prefects of all the Departments; ] in France, recommended Dr. Blanchet's plan tO( their favorable notice several years ago. Some Departments and Municipalities have voted money, and made arrangements for testing the practicability of the proposed plan. It has been