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Excerpt from A New Era in the Education of Blind Children: Or Teaching the Blind in Ordinary Schools A few words in the way of preface may be said as to the discussion of the. Idea of educating the blind with the sighted. Mr. Bird, of London, has, for twenty-five voars, advocated this cause, bv publication and correspondence, under the name of the home and social system. Mr. Martin, Royal Blind Asylum, Edinburgh, has for fifteen years. There and elsewhere, urged the education of the blind in sighted schools, and the Directors of the same institution have used their influence in the same cause. Several books written about the blind have expressed approval of the principle; an individual schoolmaster here and there, each after his own fashion, has kindly received and taught any blind child he met, and it is known that several young men have passed through the Uni' versities, which is an illustration of the same principle. Rev. Mr. Blackstoek, the late teacher of the Mission, much encouraged the prosecution of this movement, and was at the head of a Society of the Blind in Glasgow, which entered heartily into the matter by sending circulars containing the first account of the Greenock system, and the testimony of Mr. Kay and others, to various Mem bers of Parliament, and also a Memorial to the Lord Advocate. The President of the Glasgow Mission used most earnest means with various Members of Parliament, which did very much to secure the recognition of the claims of the blind in the Education Bill. To him, therefore, these named above and others, more especially the Greenock friends who wrought out the experiment, as well as to George Anderson, Esq., and Sir David vvedderburn, Bart, whose amendment was agreed to, making provision for the education of the blind, the thanks of the country are eminently due. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.