Talk:Blindness and education

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Blind lawyer
Norway has got its first blind lawyer: Punkmorten (talk) 14:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

This article is a mess
There are multiple works on the history of the education of the blind. Having recently read parts of several of these works, I have some problems with this article:

1) It is not about "Blindness and Education", it is about the history of the education of the blind.

2) As a history of the education of the blind, it is egregiously inadequate. Only the introduction even mentions the era when schools for the blind were first founded, starting in 1784 in Paris; the name of that school's founder, Valentin Haüy, is not given let alone linked, nor is the school itself (Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, which I see Haüy's article also doesn't link to!).  Ancient Egypt is listed for reasons unknown, but none of the other places and times when individual or grouped blind people received some sort of education (such as a musical academy founded in Palermo in 1661) are.  Etc.

3) It also has several problems with grammar, coherence, etc.

I just inserted a parenthesis correcting what I understand to be an outright falsehood; since the statement in question isn't referenced, I couldn't research the issue further, and hesitated just to remove the offending claim. If I have time over the coming weeks, I may read the above-mentioned histories in full, look around for sources on periods later than their publication dates, and just replace the stupid article. Would this violate Wikipedia's rules?

But I may lack that time, so in case, I recommend, besides the book now listed as reference 5, the following: Journey Into Light:  The Story of the Education of the Blind, Ishbel Ross, 1950 or 1951; The History of the Education of the Blind, W. H. Illingworth, 1919 (Internet Archive); but see also the comments on these and other works by Gordon Phillips, pages 2ff. of The Blind in British Society: Charity, State, and Community, c. 1780-1930, Ashgate, 2004, ISBN 0 7546 5012 X.

Joe Bernstein - joe@sfbooks.com - not a registered Wikipedian 97.113.103.55 (talk) 21:07, 4 July 2010 (UTC)