America's Founders: Friends of the Deaf

I feel as if from watching this video, I have a deeper and fuller understanding of how education for the Deaf was brought to America. I learned multiple new facts but three in particular are:

1) It wasn't just Alice Cogswell's father, Dr. Cogswell, who funded Gallaudet’s trip. He gathered around some of his wealthy friends and they debated on if they would help fund based on the myth, "Deaf children are unable to learn." However, they all ended helping Gallaudet.

2) Laurent Clerc wasn't all aboard on the idea of coming to America, like I assumed. Gallaudet wrote a letter to Abbe Sicard, asking for permission to Clerc to leave and come help America's Deaf children. After Sicard, contemplated and agreed, then Clerc was more than happy to come teach the beautiful sign language to the children.

3) Gallaudet’s son went into other careers before following in his father's footsteps. He went into banking first, to be a rich man instead of a "poor man" like his father.