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Chapter Seven
Gallaudet
Once he left the Asylum, he had a lot of job offers from schools around the country.
He had five kids, but needed to move to a new home since his house was on Asylum grounds.
He seriously considered the offer to head a new school for the Blind in Boston. They offered him 2,400/year, which was fantastic.
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Gallaudet was appointed Chair of Pedagogy at NYU, and there are still sources that say he was a professor, but once again, he put it off for months before declining. Pleading once again, his health.
Women in Education
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Gallaudet gave an address at Catherine Beecher's Female Academy in Hartford in 1823. The author speculates he would have compared female education to that of deaf children because of lower expectations and more schooling.
Gallaudet thought that all schools put too much emphasis on memorization and a lack of practical skills they can apply to daily lives.
Gallaudet wrote essays about women as teachers and how young men had so many other options, so women should teach. This relates to the last chapter. Gallaudet suggests their families pay to have them train as teachers and then they board with respectable families and earn their keep via housework.
When Beecher resigned, Gallaudet took up at interim principal until they could find someone new the following year.
Alice Cogswell
Gallaudet stayed in Hartford because Dr. Cogswell died in 1830, and a month later, Alice Cogswell also died.
Some believe that Alice died of grief, but at 25 and healthy, that doesn't typically happen. It is proposed that she may have committed suicide. Alice had a friend who died the same way the previous year.
Alice likely felt isolated because her dad was very controlling. She was never permitted to live on campus of the Asylum and bond with the other deaf children. Her classmates married and started families and she was left behind.
In a way, grief may have very well killed her. Her entire life was limited to her father, and when he died and she was alone.
Gallaudets as a teacher
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He would have children recognize three sight words and add a new one daily until they reached 50 cards. Then he would test the kids on their ability to identify a letter from one word in another.
A lot of Gallaudet's books were used as teaching devices with these methods carefully explained for others to replicate.
Gallaudet was amazing with children, especially as a teacher in person. Much better than his books. Children recognized this and gravitated to him.