Alexander Graham Bell — "If it is not necessary, it is obviously not advisable, that deaf children should…"

If it is not necessary, it is obviously not advisable, that deaf children should acquire, and use, as their ordinary and habitual means of communication — their vernacular in fact — a language that is not understood by the people among whom they live.
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From a letter regarding the use of sign language in deaf education.

Date: 1894

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