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The Country of the Blind
99% Invisible
The Failure of Imagination in Blind Education
By the 1860s, some schools of the blind in the US had begun experimenting with Braille. Many faculty members still resisted it as an arbitrary, impenetrable system. But Howe invested a massive amount of time and resources into developing Boston Line Type. He helped delay adoption of a much better system by close to a hundred years in the US. A new way that people are starting to say it is nothing without us. Period.
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