From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Surely belongs in any Teachers' Hall of Fame.   
   Sullivan herself was partially blind, and received most of her education   
   at a school for the blind in Massachusetts.   
   At 20 years of age she became tutor to the deaf-blind Helen Keller.   
   This story is very well known at least in outline; I was told it in   
   childhood. A famous moment:   
   (Keller later wrote) "I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the   
   motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of   
   something forgotten—a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the   
   mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant   
   the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand."   
      
   Both their stories are full of interesting stuff I didn't know.   
      
   Keller helped to found the America Civil Liberties Union. She became a   
   member of the Socialist Party and supported their presidential candidate   
   Eugene V.Debs in his four campaigns (1904-1920). She also belonged to   
   the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, "Wobblies"). And was attracted   
   to the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg. (Gasp)   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sullivan   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller   
      
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