Evening star., 1897-03-06
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years. Only the other
day he celebrated his
sixtieth birthday. but he appears at least
ten years younger.
writer for The Star visited Kendall
Green The other day and talked with Dr.
Gallaudet, the Instructors and the pupils
In conversation with DIR. Gallaudet his at
tention was called to recent publca tion
representing him as the head of faction.
DIR. Gallaudet contradicted this statement.
He said he had found good and bad points
In both the oral and manual systems. but
had selected the virtues of each and had
placed them In combined system for
teaching the inmates of the national insti-
tuition Experience has taught me- said
ne. that it is necessary to learn the CAP
abilities of a so-called deaf and dumb child
before determining how to educate him.
Those commonly called the deaf and dumb
should he spoken of simply as the deaf
since dulnhnesS or muteness Is in nearly
all cases directly dependent upon deafness
ard Is not inborn. The only exceptions to
this rule that deaf and dumb children are
mute simply because they are deaf are
where they are idiots where their vocal
organs nave become paralyzed. More IL an
haIf OF the deaf become deaf after they are
born. Those who become deaf after learn
irg to talk are seldom mutes, because they
rarely ever forget how to use :hair vocal
have
heard their own or any ones else voice
grow up TO be mute5, unless educated to
speak
The Deaf Taught to Speak.
The majority of the deaf children can be
taught 10 speak with their own lips and TO
understand speech from the lips of others
If a deaf child. however. hasn't a natural
qulckness of the eye TO read the gestures
OF the lips. or If he hasn't the necessary
al farr hahi
process of teaching him speech is yerv diff
cult. The oral or so-called new method
teaches him TO read the gestures of the
mouth and TO use his own voice and mouth
IN their expression as does the normal
child One of the greatest criticisms whic h
can be passed upon the exclusive use of
the oral system is that il too often re-
suits IN the failure of deaf children to re-
celVe educatcnS- i, ther have had
adopted in the Columbia Institute both
systems, combined into one"
Deaf Mute College.
Gallaudet College, named afelr DR. Gal
laudets father, one of the pioneer teachers
and benefactors of the deaf mufes of this
country, is the higher department of the
national institution. Here are received
graduates from the eighty-nine different
deaf mute schools in the United States
ms Is the only real college for the deaf
mute IN the world and the only institution
where he is afforded the higher academic
education and given degrees in the arts and
sciences.
Dr. Gdllaudet said that about sixty of
those who had gone out into the world
from the college had become teachers
elght OF them being at the head of institu-
tions tor the deaf: four have entered the
ministry: three have become editors or
publishers Of newspapers: three have taken
other positions in Journalism: fifteen have
entered the government civil seryice-ooe
ol ,hese. VINO had risen rapidly to high
ana responsible position. having resigned
10 practice patent law in the west and
having also been admitted TO practice in the
supreme Court of the United States ono
Is the oflcial botanist of a state. one is a
nlcroscopist. and another an engrayer in
the coast survey, two are s,lccessful .rcbi
t"cts: one occupies the office OF city coun-
cHhah' another. once a city treasurer is
no" cashier in national bank. one has
heccne eminent as a practical chemist and
aSSayrr. two have entered the facuItv of
the college, and two others are rendering
NIiuaoIe services therein as Instructors
Or Gailaudet referred to the fact that
w ate Scott once built a study into which
no sound could possibly enter He huiIt
TINS IN order that he might concentrate his
nlnd to the utmost The deaf said ne
nave ever with them the advantages offered
ny scott study One of the graduates of
the college who became a comIuIter in one
OF the government scientific institutions
was known as by far the most accurate
coinpCter ever employed there
was then introduced to Mr. per.;y.,
nan. mead OF the department of articula-
uon. VINO uShered me into the various class
rooms. where the practical educational
HCrk was In progress. l was first taken to
the hehdaiI school, a brick building smaller
thah Ire college edifCes. Here are taus%
the younger pupils. those below The col
leSl2te APARTMENT. I saw the process from
the ieslhning. nrst visiting the room where
tne youngest children were being Taught
Inc Instructor. himself deaf mute noint
ca 10 nttie coiored boy who had lately
entered TIE school. and who was called
Upon TO show the process of tuition in ts
very nrst stages The little fellow taxing
me mint. went to the blackboard The
teacher showed him the picture of a car
beneath which was printed the word .cat
|iiicn tne teacher covered with his finger
ne httIe fellow made several futile at
tenpts TO write the same word until tho
teacher nndily removed his finger that he
hnlSEt See his errors. Several other chill
ureh representing varying degrees of eff
G.thGy went through similar processes
w nile a bright-faced little blonde girl was
az the board the teacher pointed To one Of
the boys In the class. The girl wrote Roy
ne teacher. by gesture. told the bow 70
u mr. which he did. The little girl there
upon wrote Jumps" after Boy" A little
boy when shown a toy cat wrote Cat,
upon the board The teacher drew !, bIarr
iine after the word and going 10 a cIns,
produced a toy bird
The cat was moved across a table toward
the bird and was made to leap in the air
iahLihs on TOP or his victim. The child
wrote Jumps and afterward .ou ,he
Dird. IN The space which the teacher had
INDICATED was 10 be filed The cat and
birc were then so manipulated by the in
structor as to represent a violent struggle
pet"eeh the cat snd bird. during which 1t
was evident that the bird was deyoured
since IL disappeared in the palm of the
!: :structorS hand. The words Dr.yio,,sIy