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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Posted on Coloradotalk, March 23, 2020<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I ran across a news article today I would like to share. It shows just how far back some good press was printed about the blind in our state. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The Blind Not Peculiar.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Some people fall into the error of believing that blind persons are pre-eminently peculiar; that their habits and manners are not like those of the general run of mankind. This Is a great mistake and has gained vogue simply because blind people by their infirmity are conspicuous. This is true of persons with infirmities of any kind. II you take a dozen blind persons and study their traits of character and single out those that strike you as being peculiar, and then take a dozen persons possessing all their senses and note their peculiarities you will find that there is but little difference between them. One of the most important points in the education of the blind is to impress upon them that they are not unlike their seeing fellows except that they cannot see. In fact the successful <b>teacher</b> of the blind forgets that his pupils are <b>sightless.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From the </b>Fort Morgan Times, Volume VII, Number 34, April 17, 1891<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Peggy Chong, The Blind History Lady<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>