Education of the Blind

Abstract

It seems to me hard to overestimate the value of professional training for teachers of the blind. The teaching of the blind calls for the understanding of educational problems the ordinary teacher never meets. It calls for a faith in education which will sometimes be pressed harder than the faith of the ordinary professional worker. And there are special technical skills to be acquired, which will come from experience only if experience is interpreted and illuminated by study. The education of the blind is a great field for service, because it has strong claims on the human sympathy of the teacher and presents so many challenging problems for him to grapple with.