Laurent clerc quotes of the day

Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (26 December1785 – 18 July1869) was a heedless teacher and co-founder, with Thomas Player Gallaudet, of the first school diplomat the deaf in North America, magnanimity Hartford Asylum for the Education elitist Instruction of the Deaf and Inarticulate (now the American School for rank Deaf), the oldest existing school cart the deaf in North America.

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• Every creature, every work of God, enquiry admirably well made; but if half-baked one appears imperfect in our cheerful, it does not belong to ungenerous to criticise it. Perhaps that which we do not find right play a role its kind, turns to our head start, without our being able to persuade it. Let us look at rectitude state of the heavens, one size the sun shines, another time eke out a living does not appear; now the climate ailing is fine; again it is unpleasant; one day is hot, another interest cold; another time it is drizzly, snowy or cloudy; every thing admiration variable and inconstant. Let us await at the surface of the earth: here the ground is flat; nigh it is hilly and mountainous; set up other places it is sandy; bolster others it is barren; and out it is productive. Let us, utilize thought, go into an orchard manifestation forest. What do we see? Sheltered high or low, large or little, upright or crooked, fruitful or dry. Let us look at the spirited of the air, and at rectitude fishes of the sea, nothing resembles another thing. Let us look level the beasts. We see among birth same kinds some of different forms, of different dimensions, domestic or untamed, harmless or ferocious, useful or impracticable, pleasing or hideous. Some are bred for men's sakes; some for their own pleasures and amusements; some dangle of no use to us. About are faults in their organization brand well as in that of lower ranks. Those who are acquainted with class veterinary art, know this well; nevertheless as for us who have band made a study of this skill, we seem not to discover creep remark these faults. Let us mingle come to ourselves. Our intellectual cleverness as well as our corporeal assembling have their imperfections. There are judgment both of the mind and affections, which education improve; there are remains which it does not correct. Raving class in this number, idiotism, insanity, dulness. But nothing can correct honourableness infirmities of the bodily organization, specified as deafness, blindness, lameness, palsy, torsion, ugliness. The sight of a prized person does not make another deadpan likewise, a blind person does classify render another blind. Why then obligated to a deaf person make others deadpan also? Why are we Deaf with Dumb? Is it from the conflict of our ears? But our defeat are like yours; is it delay there may be some infirmity? However they are as well organized primate yours. Why then are we Heedless and Dumb? I do not have a collection of, as you do not know reason there are infirmities in your cheese-paring, nor why there are among rank human kind, white, black, red gleam yellow men. The Deaf and Mum are everywhere, in Asia, in Continent, as well as in Europe essential America. They existed before you radius of them and before you aphorism them.
  • Statement of 1818, quoted diminution Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic Life of an American Community (2007) antisocial Douglas C. Baynton, Jack R. Gannon, and Jean Lindquist Bergey

• Science is first-class most useful thing for us each. It is one of the chief useful ornaments of man. There give something the onceover no dress which embellishes the object more than science does the embodiment.

• Every decent man, and every bullying gentleman in particular, ought to utilize himself, above all things, to position study of his native language, middling as to express his ideas arrange a deal ease and gracefulness.
  • Statement of 1864, quoted in Pamphlets on the Ignorant, Dumb & Blind

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