One of the greatest educators of the 20th century was Helen Keller. She lived her whole life blind and deaf. In 1888, Keller attended the Perkins School for the Blind. In 1894, Keller and Anne Sullivan, her teacher, moved to New York City to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf and Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Helen entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College. Her admirer Mark Twain had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleton Rogers, who, with his wife, paid for her education. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe magna cum laude, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. What amazing accomplishments considering her physical limitations.
Someone once asked Keller: “What would be worse than being born blind? Listen to her reply: “To have sight without vision.” Many of us can see but how many of us really have vision? Helen Keller is doubtless a visionary woman who has inspired millions of people all over the world.
(The information on Helen Keller's educational background came from Wikipaedia.)
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