[Colorado-Talk] Old Press

[Peggy Chong]

Posted on Coloradotalk, March 23, 2020

 

I ran across a news article today I would like to share.  It shows just how
far back some good press was printed about the blind in our state.  

The Blind Not Peculiar.

Some people fall into the error of believing that blind persons are
pre-eminently peculiar; that their habits and manners are not like those of
the general run of mankind. This Is a great mistake and has gained vogue
simply because blind people by their infirmity are conspicuous. This is true
of persons with infirmities of any kind. II you take a dozen blind persons
and study their traits of character and single out those that strike you as
being peculiar, and then take a dozen persons possessing all their senses
and note their peculiarities you will find that there is but little
difference between them. One of the most important points in the education
of the blind is to impress upon them that they are not unlike their seeing
fellows except that they cannot see. In fact the successful teacher of the
blind forgets that his pupils are sightless.

>From the Fort Morgan Times, Volume VII, Number 34, April 17, 1891

 

Peggy Chong, The Blind History Lady

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