Never The Twain Shall Meet Book Report :: essays research papers

Throughout the ITP program and the lower level ASL classes the hang Gallaudet is driven into our heads. We k flat of the University named after him and how he was the serviceman to bring statement to the Deaf in America. What was non before mentioned is that there were two Gallaudets. The offset thing I learned from this book is the importance of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and his news Edward Miner Gallaudet. I fact I had believed for some time now that E.M. Gallaudet was this extraordinary man that everyone loved and the named a university after him. It is unfortunate that this was non made clearer in the past. Now all I see is a man who took the only path that he knew how to take. E.M. Gallaudet had very little option but to instruct in the way that he did. It is true that it was in the long run his choice but I believe that nurture is much more than powerful than nature. E.M.s mother was taught sign and communicated in sign to her save and child. Naturally E.M. would thi nk this is the best method of instruction. To think other wisely would be to say that his mother was inadequate. In turn this would mean that his procreation was inadequate which would lead to the conclusion that he himself was an inadequate person. For his own redemption and peace of mind E.M. was given his path at birth. For him to take a shit strayed from this would have ended up being a long and lonely driveway cutting all ties with the past. So E.M. like any normal man of that time chose to follow the path that was set out for him. T.H. Gallaudet was himself a teacher and I am sure passed on many of these traits to his son if not genetically then in his upbringing. It was no surprise to me after conclusion out that T.H. was himself a teacher that E.M. would be a teacher. This was further specializing in that T.H. was a teacher of the Deaf, which was to be the life long profession for E.M. In the beginning E.M. wanted to be a business man and exculpate lots of money. This is probably attributed to the life he must have had with his paternity living the lifestyle of a minister. His dreams were of course cut short when his develop died.