Education
Female Education
Biographers made more of his desire than evidence shows
Beecher's school dedication was an opportunity missed to show support for female education like he supports deaf education
Teachers are supposed to be women
There were more/better opportunities for men other than teaching
Families don't want to pay to educate daughters, so Gallaudet suggested they room w/ respectable families to earn their keep with housework.
Cogswell
1830- Dr. Cogswell dies
By the end of the month, Alice dies
Some believe she committed suicide due to grief over her father's death.
believe it was arsenic, which takes 3 weeks to cause multiple organ failure
Her father was her whole life
He would not allow her to live at the Asylum
She never married because her father would not allow a deaf boy near her
Gallaudet
Turned down all job offers and chose to write
Chose to write Children's Books
First textbook was more of a reference book
Books represent 2 genres: religious instruction and elementary reading
Intention was for them to be used at home and classrooms
Whole-word Instruction
"Methods of Teaching to Read" & "The Mother's Primer"
Gallaudet later abandoned one-word instruction and concentrated on Children's Stories
imitated what was selling well
Bible stories in format of dialogues between a child and a parent or teacher