The training of teachers in the United States of AmericaBramwell, Amy Blanche
Philosophy
The training of teachers in the United States of America
Bramwell, Amy Blanche
Teachers -- Training of -- United States
specimens of her own work. Younger than Helen Keller, she is very
fond of dressing dolls, and felt our dresses all over, to try to get
new ideas in dressmaking. She appears to have a good memory, and can
recognise people after a long lapse of time by just touching their
hands. We asked her through her teacher if she remembered the visit of
an Englishman, who some years before had been there and had given her
a little ring; she remembered at once, and talked about him. In the
Kindergarten we saw two other such children--Willie Robin and Tommy
Stringer. The first, a little girl, is a pretty child, and seemingly
very intelligent. It was wonderful to see all the little blind children
playing Kindergarten games, but when this child came forward and joined
in playing cat and mouse, with an evident keen sense of the fun, and
even sang the songs with the others, finding out what was being sung
by touching the throat of the child next to her, we realized what
education had done for her. The little boy, Tommy Stringer (who was
admitted mainly through the efforts of Helen Keller, who, having heard
of him, did not rest until she had secured his admission), is only
at the beginning of his training, and cannot yet do much. Of course
the first work of establishing a system of communication with these
children is the most arduous, and patient indeed must be the teachers
who devote themselves to it.
Several times we crossed the river Charles to Cambridge, for no visit
to America would have been complete without some time spent in seeing
the leading University of the country. It seemed curious to find that
women were still excluded from the lectures, although in the Women’s
Annex they are allowed to work as if for a degree. It seemed strange
that such a state of things could exist in a land which boasts itself
of freedom and of the position given to women. Indeed, it really
appears that the eastern States of America are behind England in the
matter of offering equal educational advantages to men and women. There
are, of course, the great Women’s Colleges of Bryn Mawr, Wellesley,
Vassar and Smith, which offer splendid opportunities for work, but
their courses lead to degrees which are for women only, and which will,
for that reason alone, never be considered as of such importance as
those which are also granted to men.
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