Helen Keller (June 27th 1 880-65438+June10968) is an American disabled educator. She was blind and deaf because of a scarlet fever when she was 0/9 months old. Later, with the efforts of her mentor Anne Sullivan, she learned to speak and began to communicate with others. Graduated from Harvard University.
Helen? Keller is a famous American writer and educator. 1882, when she was over one year old, her brain was injured because of a high fever. From then on, her eyes couldn't see and her ears couldn't hear. Later, she couldn't even speak.
She grew up groping in the dark. At the age of seven, the family hired a tutor for her, that is, Miss Sullivan, who influenced Helen's life. Sullivan was almost blind when he was a child, and he knew the pain of losing sight. Under the guidance of her efforts, Helen learned sign language by touching hands, reading by touching some cards, and finally learning to speak by touching others' lips.
In order to get Helen close to nature, Miss Sullivan asked her to roll on the grass, run and jump in the fields, sow seeds in the fields and climb trees to eat. I also took her to touch the newborn pig and go to the river to play with water. Under the careful care of the teacher, Helen overcame the obstacles of blindness and deafness and completed her college studies.
1936, the teacher who lived with her for fifty years passed away, and Helen was very sad. Helen knows that without the love of her teacher, she wouldn't be here today. She is determined to carry forward the love given to her by her teacher. As a result, Helen traveled all over the United States, big and small cities, all over the world, running around for the disabled and serving those unfortunate people wholeheartedly.
1968, Helen died at the age of 87, and her lifelong service for the disabled spread all over the world. She wrote many books and her story was made into a movie. Teacher Sullivan gave her the most precious love. She spread this love to all the unfortunate people and brought them light and hope.
After her death, she touched the whole world because of her strong will and outstanding contribution. People all over the world have carried out activities to commemorate her.
Related works
* Miracle Maker (translated by Helen Keller, Taiwan Province) (2000, TV movie, Disney)
* If you give me three days of light
* My life
My teacher *
Helen Keller seems destined to create miracles for mankind, or God sent her into this world to show the dignity and greatness of the disabled to ordinary people. When she was one and a half years old, she suddenly had acute cerebral congestion, and her high fever for several days kept her in a coma. When she woke up, her eyes burned blind, her ears burned deaf, and her dexterous mouth could not speak. From then on, she fell into a dark and silent world and an abyss of pain.
1March 3, 887, which is a very important day for Helen. On this day, the family invited a teacher for her-Miss Anne Sullivan. Anne taught her to write and sign language. When Mr. Janagno of Perkins School for the Blind was surprised to read Helen's complete and true letter in French, he wrote: "No one can imagine how surprised and happy I am. I have always believed in her ability, but it is hard to believe that she has achieved such good results in three months of study. In the United States, it takes a year for others to reach this level. " At this time, Helen was only 9 years old.
However, it is almost impossible for a person to communicate with others in a silent and dark world because every exit has been tightly closed to him. But Helen is a miracle. She went from hell to heaven step by step, but the difficulty of this journey exceeded anyone's imagination. When she learns pronunciation, she needs to use her sense of touch to understand the trembling of her throat and the movement of her mouth when she pronounces, which is often inaccurate. To this end, Helen has to practice her pronunciation repeatedly, sometimes for hours at a time. Failure and fatigue made her haggard, and a strong man shed tears of despair for it. However, she never flinched, worked hard day and night, and finally was able to speak "Dad", "Mom" and "Sister" fluently. The whole family gave her a surprise hug, and even her favorite dog seemed to understand her call and ran to lick her hand.
1894 In the summer, Helen joined the American Association for the Advancement of Language Teaching for the Deaf and was arranged to study mathematics, science, French and German in Humason School for the Deaf. Within a few months, she will be able to talk freely in German. In less than a year, she finished reading the German work William Tell. Teachers who teach French don't know sign language letters and have to dictate; Nevertheless, Helen quickly mastered French and read the novel The Forced Doctor twice. During her stay in new york, Helen made many friends in the literary world. Mark Twain read her wonderful short stories and they established a sincere friendship. Dr. Holmes read her a collection of poems, Rolling Beans, in his quiet home by the Merrimack River. When he read the last two pages, Holmes put a slave statue in her hand. The chain on the crouching slave just fell off, and Holmes said to Helen, "She is the liberator of your thoughts." The doctor refers to Miss Anne. Helen's excitement, beautiful thoughts and feelings about the world, meaningful deep love and down-to-earth pursuit are deeply rooted in her heart like the seeds of spring. Helen said confidently from an early age, "One day, I will go to college! I'm going to Harvard University! " This day has finally arrived. Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University arranged her entrance examination in a special way. I saw that she skillfully touched the raised braille with her hand and then answered the question with a typewriter. After 9 hours, all subjects passed, and she got excellent grades in English and German. Helen began her college life eagerly.
1June, 904, Helen graduated from Radcliffe College with honors. Two years later, she was appointed as the chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for the Blind and began to do social work for the blind. She receives visiting blind people every day, and she has to reply to letters flying in like snow. Later, she toured all over the United States to promote the implementation of education programs and treatment programs for the deaf and blind. 192 1, the American Foundation for the Blind was finally established. Helen is one of the leaders of this organization, and she has been working hard to strengthen the work of the foundation. In the busy work, she never put down her pen and finished 14 books. My Life, Song of the Stone Wall, out of the dark, Optimism, etc. Have had a worldwide impact. Helen's last work was Teacher, for which she collected notes and letters for 20 years, but all these and three-quarters of the manuscripts were burned in a fire, as well as the Braille library and exquisite craft gifts from various countries. A different person might be disheartened, but Helen learned a lesson from the painful experience and was determined to finish it. She sat quietly in front of the typewriter and began another difficult trek. 10 years later, Helen finished the manuscript. She is very happy that this book is a gift for Teacher Anne, and Teacher Anne is very proud of it.
1956165438+1October 15 The curtain on a plaque erected at the gate of Perkins School for the Blind in America was lifted by Helen with trembling hands, which read: In memory of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Messi. This is not an ordinary plaque, but for those who have written outstanding chapters in the history of human civilization. Indeed, Helen devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind and won the respect of people all over the world. The United Nations also launched the "Helen Keller" World Campaign. On June 1968, Helen Keller, a deaf-mute blind scholar, writer and educator who wrote a hymn of brilliant life in the history of human civilization, passed away surrounded by flowers. However, her indomitable spirit of struggle and her legendary life will go down in history forever. As the famous writer Mark Twain said, there were two great figures in the19th century, one was Napoleon and the other was Helen Keller.
The life of Helen and Keller:
Born in mbia, Tuscany, Alabama, USA on June 27th, 1880.
1882 65438+ 10 was blind and deaf due to scarlet fever.
Anne Sullivan became Keller's teacher.
June 1899 was admitted to Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University.
1902–1903 wrote and published My Life (partially translated into My Life Story).
1June, 904, graduated from university with honors.
1908–1913 wrote My Heaven and Earth (also translated as The World in My Life), Song of the Stone Wall and Out of the Darkness.
19 16 suffered from marital misfortune.
19 19 was invited to star in a movie in Hollywood.
1924 became the main leader of the American Foundation for the Blind.
1929 wrote about my old age.
1930 Travel to Britain.
1931–1933 was awarded an honorary degree by Temple University. Visit France, Yugoslavia and Britain.
1On October 20th, the teacher Anne Sullivan passed away.
1942–1952 visited 13 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
1953, The Invincible Head, a documentary about Keller's life and work, was released in the United States.
1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University for her book teacher, Anne Sullivan Messi.
1959 The United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" World Campaign.
1960 "Helen Keller" Award awarded by American Overseas Blind Foundation.
1964 won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1968 June 1 passed away.
1On the afternoon of June, 968, Helen Keller died in her sleep at the age of 87. Miss Keller was deaf and blind at 18 months after birth, but miraculously finished her life.
Helen Keller 1880 was born in mbia, Tuscany, in northern Alabama. When she was one and a half years old, a serious illness deprived her of her sight and hearing, and then she lost the ability to express herself in words. However, in this dark and lonely world, she actually learned to read and speak, and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in the United States, becoming a well-known writer and educator proficient in five languages: English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She traveled all over the United States and the world to raise money for schools for the blind and devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has won the praise of people all over the world and won many government awards.
The most important thing for a deaf-mute to learn to read is for out of the dark to move towards the light. From learning to read to learning to read requires more perseverance than ordinary people. Helen observed Miss Sullivan's lips with her fingers and understood her throat trembling, mouth movements and facial expressions with her sense of touch, which was often inaccurate. In order to pronounce a word or sentence well, she has to practice it again and again. Helen never gives in to failure.
From Helen's education at the age of 7 to her admission to Radcliffe College 14, she wrote many letters to her relatives, friends and classmates. These letters either describe what she saw and heard on the trip, or pour out her feelings, and some people repeat a story she just heard, which is very rich in content. When she was in college, many textbooks didn't have Braille, and the contents of the books in her hand had to be spelled by others, so she spent much more time previewing her lessons than other students. While other students were playing and singing outside, she spent a lot of time preparing her lessons.
Helen can achieve such high academic performance in out of the dark not only because of her perseverance, but also because of her teacher Sullivan's follow-up teaching. She said that "the day when my teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to my home was the most important day in my life" and "she liberated my spirit". It was her teacher who taught her to read and know that everything has a name, and it was also the teacher who taught her what an abstract noun like "love" is. Helen became ignorant and surly after her childhood illness and disability, and almost became a hopeless waste. But it is indeed a miracle that she became a literate college student. It can be said that half of this miracle was created by Helen's teacher, Anne Sullivan, and it was the fruit of her lofty dedication and scientific educational methods. No matter what Miss Sullivan teaches Helen, she always tells it clearly with a nice story or a poem. Her educational experience is very rich and her educational methods are different. She never locked Helen in her room for strict classroom education.
Helen overcame the mental pain caused by physical defects with tenacious perseverance. She loves life. She can ride horses, ski and play chess. She also likes theatrical performances and visits museums and places of interest, from which she can gain knowledge. At the age of 2 1, she collaborated with her teacher to publish her first novel, The Story of My Life. In the next 60 years, she wrote 14 books.
If you give me three days of light (excerpt)
Helen Keller
We all know that we are doomed to die. But the arrival of this day seems to be far away. Of course, if people are healthy, who would think of this, who would think of this all day. So I ate all day and did nothing.
Sometimes I think, if people live every day as if it were their last, how wonderful it would be! This will show the value of life more. If we think that the years are still quite long, our daily life will not be so meaningful, full of energy and enthusiasm.
We are so tired of life. Treat your talents and use your organs, isn't that right? Only the blind cherish the light more. This is especially true for those who are blind and deaf as adults. However, those who are alert and observant never make good use of their talents. They turn a blind eye, turn a deaf ear and have no appreciation. This is a daily - happened thing. Once something is lost, people will miss it. People don't think of health and happiness until they get sick. If everyone is blind and deaf for a few days at a certain stage in adulthood, darkness will make them cherish the light more; Silence will teach them to truly appreciate the joy of noise …
Please think about this question: if you only have three days of light, how will you use your eyes? Thinking about three days later, the sun will never rise in front of your eyes. How will you spend your precious three days? Where will you put your eyes?
Helen Keller fell ill when she was young. She is deaf and blind. At the age of seven, Anne Sullivan became her mentor, and she has been her mentor and friend for 50 years. With Sullivan's help, he entered the university and graduated with honors. During her college years, she wrote The Story of My Life, telling how she overcame illness and disability and inspired thousands of disabled people and normal people. This book has been translated into 50 languages and distributed all over the world. Later, he wrote many words and several autobiographical novels, which showed that darkness and silence did not exist. Later, Keller became an outstanding social reformer, giving speeches in the United States, Europe and Asia to raise money for the blind and deaf. During World War II, she visited many hospitals to offer condolences to the blind soldiers. Her spirit is revered by people. 1964 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor of American citizens, and was elected as one of the top ten outstanding women in the world the following year.
The following is the chronology of her life:
Born in mbia, Tuscany, Alabama, USA on June 27th, 1880.
1882 65438+ 10 was blind and deaf due to scarlet fever. Anne Sullivan became Keller's teacher.
June 1899 was admitted to Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University.
1902–1903 wrote and published My Life (partially translated into My Life Story).
1June, 904, graduated from university with honors.
1908– 19 13; He is the author of My Heaven and Earth (also translated as The World in My Life), Song of Stone Walls and Rushing Out of Darkness.
19 16 suffered from marital misfortune.
19 19 was invited to star in a movie in Hollywood.
1924 became the main leader of the American Foundation for the Blind.
1929 wrote about my old age.
1930 Travel to Britain.
1931–1933 was awarded an honorary degree by Temple University. Visit France, Yugoslavia and Britain.
1On October 20th, the teacher Anne Sullivan passed away.
1942–1952 visited 13 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
1953, The Invincible Head, a documentary about Keller's life and work, was released in the United States.
1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University for her book teacher, Anne Sullivan Messi.
1959 The United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" World Campaign.
1960 "Helen Keller" Award awarded by American Overseas Blind Foundation.
1964 won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1968 June 1 passed away.
1902–1903 wrote and published My Life (partially translated into My Life Story).
1908– 19 13; He is the author of My Heaven and Earth (also translated as The World in My Life), Song of Stone Walls and Rushing Out of Darkness.
1929 wrote about my old age.
1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University for her book teacher, Anne Sullivan Messi.
Respondent: lixu Ming 10 1- Qian Zongwu-3 14:32.
Helen Keller is an American blind and deaf woman writer and educator.
When I was young, I was sick, deaf in both ears and blind in both eyes. At the age of seven, Anne Sullivan became her mentor, and she has been her mentor and friend for 50 years. With Sullivan's help, he entered the university and graduated with honors. During her college years, she wrote The Story of My Life, telling how she overcame illness and disability and inspired thousands of disabled people and normal people. This book has been translated into 50 languages and distributed all over the world. Later, he wrote many words and several autobiographical novels, which showed that darkness and silence did not exist. Later, Keller became an outstanding social reformer, giving speeches in the United States, Europe and Asia to raise money for the blind and deaf. During World War II, she visited many hospitals to offer condolences to the blind soldiers. Her spirit is revered by people. 1964 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor of American citizens, and was elected as one of the top ten outstanding women in the world the following year.
The life of Helen and Keller:
Born in mbia, Tuscany, Alabama, USA on June 27th, 1880.
1882 65438+ 10 was blind and deaf due to scarlet fever.
Anne Sullivan became Keller's teacher.
June 1899 was admitted to Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University.
1902–1903 wrote and published My Life (partially translated into My Life Story).
1June, 904, graduated from university with honors.
1908–1913 wrote My Heaven and Earth (also translated as The World in My Life), Song of the Stone Wall and Out of the Darkness.
19 16 suffered from marital misfortune.
19 19 was invited to star in a movie in Hollywood.
1924 became the main leader of the American Foundation for the Blind.
1929 wrote about my old age.
1930 Travel to Britain.
1931–1933 was awarded an honorary degree by Temple University. Visit France, Yugoslavia and Britain.
1On October 20th, the teacher Anne Sullivan passed away.
1942–1952 visited 13 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
1953, The Invincible Head, a documentary about Keller's life and work, was released in the United States.
1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University for her book teacher, Anne Sullivan Messi.
1959 The United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" World Campaign.
1960 "Helen Keller" Award awarded by American Overseas Blind Foundation.
1964 won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.