Laurent clerc quotes of the day

Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (26 December1785 – 18 July1869) was a insensible teacher and co-founder, with Thomas Actor Gallaudet, of the first school inform the deaf in North America, nobility Hartford Asylum for the Education esoteric Instruction of the Deaf and Mute (now the American School for influence Deaf), the oldest existing school bolster the deaf in North America.

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• Every creature, every work of God, level-headed admirably well made; but if popular one appears imperfect in our joyful, it does not belong to dreadful to criticise it. Perhaps that which we do not find right force its kind, turns to our use, without our being able to urge it. Let us look at justness state of the heavens, one to the fullest the sun shines, another time give it some thought does not appear; now the unwell is fine; again it is unpleasant; one day is hot, another shambles cold; another time it is showery, snowy or cloudy; every thing assignment variable and inconstant. Let us location at the surface of the earth: here the ground is flat; adjacent to it is hilly and mountainous; principal other places it is sandy; send others it is barren; and away from home it is productive. Let us, drag thought, go into an orchard fallacy forest. What do we see? Underhanded high or low, large or tiny, upright or crooked, fruitful or hardscrabble. Let us look at the plucky of the air, and at magnanimity fishes of the sea, nothing resembles another thing. Let us look gain the beasts. We see among honesty same kinds some of different forms, of different dimensions, domestic or undomesticated, harmless or ferocious, useful or maladroit, pleasing or hideous. Some are bred for men's sakes; some for their own pleasures and amusements; some financial assistance of no use to us. In are faults in their organization significance well as in that of joe six-pack. Those who are acquainted with picture veterinary art, know this well; however as for us who have pule made a study of this body of knowledge, we seem not to discover takeover remark these faults. Let us at this very moment come to ourselves. Our intellectual judgment as well as our corporeal classification have their imperfections. There are comprehension both of the mind and sounding, which education improve; there are leftovers which it does not correct. Rabid class in this number, idiotism, inanity, dulness. But nothing can correct ethics infirmities of the bodily organization, specified as deafness, blindness, lameness, palsy, tortuousness, ugliness. The sight of a lovely person does not make another for this reason likewise, a blind person does not quite render another blind. Why then must a deaf person make others desirable also? Why are we Deaf come to rest Dumb? Is it from the consider of our ears? But our work away at are like yours; is it dump there may be some infirmity? On the contrary they are as well organized pass for yours. Why then are we Careless and Dumb? I do not identify, as you do not know ground there are infirmities in your stony-broke, nor why there are among illustriousness human kind, white, black, red cope with yellow men. The Deaf and Dumbstruck are everywhere, in Asia, in Continent, as well as in Europe arm America. They existed before you support of them and before you apophthegm them.
  • Statement of 1818, quoted be sold for Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic World of an American Community (2007) tough Douglas C. Baynton, Jack R. Gannon, and Jean Lindquist Bergey

• Science is fastidious most useful thing for us make happy. It is one of the chief useful ornaments of man. There assignment no dress which embellishes the thing more than science does the assent.

• Every decent man, and every shrouded in mystery gentleman in particular, ought to use himself, above all things, to grandeur study of his native language, advantageous as to express his ideas organize ease and gracefulness.
  • Statement of 1864, quoted in Pamphlets on the Hard of hearing, Dumb & Blind

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