Annie Sullivan was a classical educator who began teaching Helen Keller when Keller was only six years old. Sullivan used fingerspelling, a tedious method of tracing out every letter of every word in the palm of Keller’s hand.
By the time Keller was 13, she could read Latin and French using raised print. In high school, she read the Iliad—in Greek. As you’re likely aware, Keller was blind, deaf, and dumb, and had been since infancy.
Stop saying “can’t.”
Note: Andy Newman will be teaching Creative Writing: Awakening Wonder with Wordsworth, Hopkins, and Bradbury this summer for Kepler. Class begins June 29. “Read William Wordsworth’s…
Kepler Disputatio4/26/24PredestinationJunius Johnson, PhD, Disputant [please direct questions and comments to junius.johnson[at]kepler.education] In this disputation, the question whether God predestines humans is considered. Arguments For…
Authors in the Great Tradition describe sin as becoming less real and losing our humanity–we see this happening all around us. One of the blessings…
A Guest Post by Mike Wilhelm, Ph.D. Dr. Wilhelm is the senior chaplain at Cal Farley’s: a worldwide leader in the field of residential childcare…
The study of adjectives and adverbs, commas and clauses, prepositions and participles, is a channel through which God pours spiritual growth, Christlikeness, and joy to the Christian.
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