Frases de Laurent Clerc

Laurent Clerc , fue un destacado profesor y pedagogo francés.

Cuando tenía un año de edad sufrió quemaduras que le ocasionaron la pérdida de la audición y le deformaron la mitad derecha de la cara. A los doce años ingresó a la Escuela Nacional de Sordos regentada en París por el Abad Michel de l´Epée. Allí permaneció, después de terminar sus estudios, como maestro.

En 1816 emprendió, junto con el Abad Roch Ambroise Sicard , un viaje a Inglaterra para difundir los métodos usados por ellos para educar a los sordos. En ese viaje conocieron a Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, un pastor estadounidense que se encontraba en Europa en búsqueda de conocimientos para fundar una escuela para niños sordos en su país.

El grupo regresó a París acompañados por Gallaudet, quien permaneció con ellos durante dos meses, aprendiendo sus métodos. Clerc comenzó a enseñar a Gallaudet la Lengua de Señas Francesa , y formó con él una buena amistad. Ante la perspectiva de fundar la escuela en los Estados Unidos, Sicard autorizó a Laurent Clerc a acompañar de regreso a Gallaudet, para asistirlo en esa labor durante un año.

En 1817 abrieron en la ciudad de Hartford, Connecticut, la primera escuela de sordos de los Estados Unidos, la Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons. Aunque ambos se desempeñaban como maestros, al principio Clerc asumió la mayor parte de labores docentes, mientras Gallaudet se encargaba mayormente de la administración.

Laurent Clerc no regresó nunca a Europa. Decidió continuar enseñando en Hartford hasta 1858, año de su retiró. Murió en Hartford en 1869 a los 83 años.

La LSF que trajo consigo Laurent Clerc es el sustrato de lo que hoy se conoce como la Lengua de signos americana . Clerc es venerado por los sordos de los Estados Unidos como una de las figuras fundadoras de su historia. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. diciembre 1785 – 18. julio 1869
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Laurent Clerc: Frases en inglés

“Every creature, every work of God, is admirably well made; but if any one appears imperfect in our eyes, it does not belong to us to criticise it. Perhaps that which we do not find right in its kind, turns to our advantage, without our being able to perceive it. Let us look at the state of the heavens, one while the sun shines, another time it does not appear; now the weather is fine; again it is unpleasant; one day is hot, another is cold; another time it is rainy, snowy or cloudy; every thing is variable and inconstant. Let us look at the surface of the earth: here the ground is flat; there it is hilly and mountainous; in other places it is sandy; in others it is barren; and elsewhere it is productive. Let us, in thought, go into an orchard or forest. What do we see? Trees high or low, large or small, upright or crooked, fruitful or unfruitful. Let us look at the birds of the air, and at the fishes of the sea, nothing resembles another thing. Let us look at the beasts. We see among the same kinds some of different forms, of different dimensions, domestic or wild, harmless or ferocious, useful or useless, pleasing or hideous. Some are bred for men's sakes; some for their own pleasures and amusements; some are of no use to us. There are faults in their organization as well as in that of men. Those who are acquainted with the veterinary art, know this well; but as for us who have not made a study of this science, we seem not to discover or remark these faults. Let us now come to ourselves. Our intellectual faculties as well as our corporeal organization have their imperfections. There are faculties both of the mind and heart, which education improve; there are others which it does not correct. I class in this number, idiotism, imbecility, dulness. But nothing can correct the infirmities of the bodily organization, such as deafness, blindness, lameness, palsy, crookedness, ugliness. The sight of a beautiful person does not make another so likewise, a blind person does not render another blind. Why then should a deaf person make others so also? Why are we Deaf and Dumb? Is it from the difference of our ears? But our ears are like yours; is it that there may be some infirmity? But they are as well organized as yours. Why then are we Deaf and Dumb? I do not know, as you do not know why there are infirmities in your bodies, nor why there are among the human kind, white, black, red and yellow men. The Deaf and Dumb are everywhere, in Asia, in Africa, as well as in Europe and America. They existed before you spoke of them and before you saw them.”

Statement of 1818, quoted in Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community (2007) by Douglas C. Baynton, Jack R. Gannon, and Jean Lindquist Bergey

“Science is a most useful thing for us all. It is one of the most useful ornaments of man. There is no dress which embellishes the body more than science does the mind.”

Statement of 1864, quoted in Pamphlets on the Deaf, Dumb & Blind http://books.google.com/books?id=FLcMAQAAIAAJ&q=%22There+is+no+dress+which+embellishes+the+body+more+than+science+does+the+mind%22&dq=%22There+is+no+dress+which+embellishes+the+body+more+than+science+does+the+mind%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UlFgVOWoJY-uyATH1YDACQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA