What an inspiring man. Known for (supposedly) inventing the telephone, he was also passionate about his work teaching deaf children to speak and inventing instruments to help with hearing loss. His wife Mabel, was also deaf and they had a very loving and supportive relationship.
He co-founded the National Geographic Society. He built kites and his Silver Dart airplane made the first controlled flight in Canada.
Bell visited Italy and a Montessori school. This style of education influenced him such that he set up a similar home education programme. I was particularly taken with his idea that in education if you introduce a person to as many diverse and varied things as possible, even if they could not pursue them at the time, and they lie dormant. Perhaps sometime later in life they may take them up. This makes one a more interesting person and one is also more interested in life.
"We are all too inclined to walk through life with our eyes closed. There are things around us at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never looked. We should not keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. We should leave the beaten track occasionally and enter the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing; but do not ignore it for all really big discoveries are the results of thought."Photo: Bell explains to his daughter his solar still apparatus which provided fresh water.
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