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The Rise of EducationAt the beginning, sons followed their fathers and the girls were kept at home to learn how to keep house, later on people became attached to other jobs. All education was on the master and apprentice model where the master spoke to the apprentice and so deaf people had to be excluded. Roman Law confirmed these ideas and would not allow deaf people to marry. One more positive report on the son of Quintus Pedius, a consul with Caesar around 63BC explains that he was able to learn to paint very well even though he was deaf. Such positive views are relatively rare - except where the person was able to learn to speak. Education however, proceeded more and more formally. It is very hard to say when the first schools were set up. Some records claim over a thoudand years in the UK. But the rise of State schools was in the 19th century. Before that all schools were businesses and had to be able to pay for themselves. In that context it is easy to see how methodology was all important. The means of showing the effects of that school's methodology was public demonstration. Deaf Schools (first formed in the mid 18th century) used public demonstration to recruit children and to plead for public donations. Not surprisingly, the aim was to show that whatever you did in school it led to great achievement in the children in school. As can be predicted, this usually meant how well can the children be shown to be able to talk. You will need to read other sources for a full history of deaf education as this is meant to be only the introduction, however, we should also confirm that the control of deaf education was mostly in the hands of hearing people. |
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