Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . coursethere is no hope for him. I suppose a third of the men herehave no eyes at all. One man wasblinded by a bullet which struckneither eye nor optic nerve, but wentbelow the latter. The swiftness otits passage did the work. But it would be profitless to go into details of the way in which the men met their misfortunes. The thing to do is to help them. That we can do by teaching them how to make their livings and how to enjoy life to Its fullest in spite of their ill luck. j We are teaching all that come, of j course, to re
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . coursethere is no hope for him. I suppose a third of the men herehave no eyes at all. One man wasblinded by a bullet which struckneither eye nor optic nerve, but wentbelow the latter. The swiftness otits passage did the work. But it would be profitless to go into details of the way in which the men met their misfortunes. The thing to do is to help them. That we can do by teaching them how to make their livings and how to enjoy life to Its fullest in spite of their ill luck. j We are teaching all that come, of j course, to read books and newspapers printed in braille, the raised type which the blind can decipher with j their finger tips. This and other things are taught here at St. Dun- [ Stans by instructors who themselvesare blind. That sets fore\-«r aside thetheory that blindness means ineffec-tiveness, doesnt it? Great advances have been madein the instruction of the blind. Inthe old days, and not in days so veryremote at that, it was held that ablind man must be given three years. Blind soldiers learn to repair shoes.
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