all one's life
A change of fate
Helen Keller was very healthy when she was born, but when 19 months old, she developed acute cerebral congestion and caused a high fever. As a result, the disease made her blind and deaf. This fate made Helen Keller extremely irritable, and her father and mother were very worried about it. When Helen was 6 years old, with the help of her family doctor, her parents invited Miss Sullivan from Perkins School for the Blind to be Helen Keller's first tutor.
Meet the tutor
Miss Sullivan is very caring. He first understood Helen Keller's temperament, established a relationship of mutual trust with her, and then patiently taught Helen Keller sign language so that she could communicate with others. Later, I taught Helen Keller to point to Braille and basic life etiquette with her fingers. After some training, when she was 10 years old, her parents invited a teacher named Sarah Flova from Hollesman school to teach her to speak, and Helen Keller finally learned to speak. This is a very difficult thing for a blind and deaf person. Under the careful guidance of her parents and teacher Sullivan, Helen Keller changed the world and began to study hard and be a serious person.
enter a school
1904, Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College. 1898, Helen Keller was admitted to Cambridge Girls' School in Massachusetts. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/900, I was admitted to Radcliffe College of Harvard University, which was incredible for a blind and deaf person. Finally, in 1904, Helen Keller obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with excellent results, becoming the first deaf-mute and blind person to graduate from an institution of higher learning. For so many years, Miss Sullivan has been with Helen Keller, writing textbooks and texts on Helen Keller's palm, so that Keller can understand the contents. It can be said that she never left Helen Keller, so Helen Keller was very grateful to her all her life.
Educate the public
Helen Keller 1924 established the Helen Keller Foundation and joined the American Foundation for the Blind as its national and international relations consultant. Later, she gave a speech at the annual meeting of the Lions Club International, and she asked the Lions Club to become a "warrior to help the blind overcome the darkness". Said, "I opened a window of opportunity for you, and I am knocking at your door." From 65438 to 0946, Helen Keller served as the international relations consultant of the American Global Blind Foundation and began to travel around the world, visiting 35 countries. She tries her best to build schools for blind people all over the world, and often goes to hospitals to visit patients and share her experiences with them, so as to give them the will to survive. She also fought for the rights and interests of the poor and blacks and advocated world peace.
be written into the annals of history
Helen Keller was 87 years old. After her death, because of her strong will and outstanding contribution, she touched the whole world, and people all over the world held activities to commemorate her. Someone once commented on her: "Helen Keller is the pride of mankind and an example for us to learn." I believe that many deaf and blind people with diseases can find light in the dark. "
Helen Keller Day
197 1 year, in order to commemorate Helen Keller's indomitable spirit, the international directors of Lions International announced that June 1 day would be designated as "Helen Keller Day" every year. On this day, Lions Clubs all over the world will hold service activities related to vision.
1On the afternoon of June, 968, Helen Keller died in her sleep at the age of 87. Miss Keller was deaf and blind at 18 months after birth, but miraculously finished her life.
Helen Keller 1880 was born in mbia, Tuscany, in northern Alabama. When she was one and a half years old, a serious illness deprived her of her sight and hearing, and then she lost the ability to express herself in words. However, in this dark and lonely world, she actually learned to read and speak, and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in the United States, becoming a well-known writer and educator proficient in five languages: English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She traveled all over the United States and the world to raise money for schools for the blind and devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has won the praise of people all over the world and won many government awards.
The most important thing for a deaf-mute to learn to read is for out of the dark to move towards the light. From learning to read to learning to read requires more perseverance than ordinary people. Helen observed Miss Sullivan's lips with her fingers and understood her throat trembling, mouth movements and facial expressions with her sense of touch, which was often inaccurate. In order to pronounce a word or sentence well, she has to practice it again and again. Helen never gives in to failure.
From Helen's education at the age of 7 to her admission to Radcliffe College 14, she wrote many letters to her relatives, friends and classmates. These letters either describe what she saw and heard on the trip, or pour out her feelings, and some people repeat a story she just heard, which is very rich in content. When she was in college, many textbooks didn't have Braille, and the contents of the books in her hand had to be spelled by others, so she spent much more time previewing her lessons than other students. While other students were playing and singing outside, she spent a lot of time preparing her lessons.
Helen can achieve such high academic performance in out of the dark not only because of her perseverance, but also because of her teacher Sullivan's follow-up teaching. She said that "the day when my teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to my home was the most important day in my life" and "she liberated my spirit". It was her teacher who taught her to read and know that everything has a name, and it was also the teacher who taught her what an abstract noun like "love" is. Helen became ignorant and surly after her childhood illness and disability, and almost became a hopeless waste. But it is indeed a miracle that she became a literate college student. It can be said that half of this miracle was created by Helen's teacher, Anne Sullivan, and it was the fruit of her lofty dedication and scientific educational methods. No matter what Miss Sullivan teaches Helen, she always tells it clearly with a nice story or a poem. Her educational experience is very rich and her educational methods are different. She never locked Helen in her room for strict classroom education.
Helen overcame the mental pain caused by physical defects with tenacious perseverance. She loves life. She can ride horses, ski and play chess. She also likes theatrical performances and visits museums and places of interest, from which she can gain knowledge. At the age of 2 1, she collaborated with her teacher to publish her first novel, The Story of My Life. In the next 60 years, she wrote 14 books.