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Gallaudet's Later Focuses - Coggle Diagram
Gallaudet's Later Focuses
1) Gallaudet's Family Life
He was known to spend a lot of time with his family and went to church with them weekly
He was very involved in his children's education but his wife was not given very much assistance or further education
His wife and children learned to live with Gallaudet's depression and when he fell into these states they "let nature take its course"
He believed that "the parent is, as it were, in the place of God, to the child"
He also believed that the mother should always be in the house and give "her very best effort" at all times
2) Writings on Character
His book
The American Annals of Education
stated the idea that good citizenship is based on how a person was raised and whether their values were "godly"
In
Starting in Life
he focuses on the young men who were not able to be given work from their fathers, and had to leave the family to find it on their own
He advises these men to read a lot but only the right type of books, to choose their friends wisely, to resist peer pressure, to have determination, obedience, "...honesty, temperance, Sabbath observance, and so forth"
The books are patronizing and Gallaudet labels the reader as "working class" while telling them "for you to live you must work, and we do not suppose that you wish to live without [working]. If you do, as it is a wish not likely to be realized, the sooner you give it up the better"
4) Gallaudet's Involvement in Societies & Missionary Work
Gallaudet was active in both the American Bible Society and the Hartford Auxiliary Bible Society, which aimed to put a bible in every household
Gallaudet had been distributing pamphlets of the International Peace Society for a long time and founded a Connecticut branch in 1832
Gallaudet began his involvement in mission societies after he visited a school for "heathen youth" created by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
The pupils of the school were from three Native American tribes and Gallaudet was able to communicate with them through signs
He later asserted that "savages, whose language is very poor and imperfect, make up its deficiency in signs"
Gallaudet later became interested in missionary work having to do with local jails and prisons
The Prison Discipline Society held the idea that the disproportionate number of African Americans that were imprisoned, was due to their lack of discipline as children
The Tract Society, which Gallaudet was heavily involved with, published children's books that blamed African Americans for being able to be taken from Africa
3) Later Thoughts on Deaf Education
Gallaudet occasionally substituted at the Asylum while controversy over sign language instruction began to emerge
In a letter written to Horace Mann, Gallaudet asserts that 'education involves the student's "intellectual and moral training" and they must learn so much more than just learning how to speak
In 1847, he wrote an essay called "On the Natural Language of Signs" which stated that stopping a deaf child from signing is cruel and "deprives them of intellectual and moral development"
In the essay, he also writes that sign language cannot be learned from books, and must come from a "living, looking, acting model" and that some of the best teachers of sign are deaf people, themselves