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I'm about half way through The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language. What an interesting book. After seeing some of the movie The Miracle Worker on tv the other day, my interest in Helen Keller was renewed. In my looking around online, I realized I had heard of Laura Bridgman before, but had never learned anything about her.
I never realized how much philosophy and religion (Calvinism in particular) would bump up against each other in the drive to understand how humans learn, especially a person cut off from the normal ability to learn language from their infant hood.
That little blurb of mine does no justice to the book. It's very interesting, and WAY over my head.
I will say, it did spark my interest in the of course debunked field of phrenology, and why it was so popular.
Flickr has a ton of photos of Laura, and some of her needlework, most items still at the Perkins School for the Blind archives. That a blind person could tat lace just blows my mind.
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