[Home-on-the-range] Can you compare learning to ride a unicycle with learning braille?

[James Secor]

Twain said that the person who doesn't read is more dangerous than the person who can't read. 
       jimsecor


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From: Dianne Hemphill via Home-on-the-Range <home-on-the-range at nfbnet.org>
Date: 05.08.2016 16:02:24
To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List <home-on-the-range at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [Home-on-the-range] Can you compare learning to ride a unicycle  with learning braille?

> Good morning federation family - once again an article in the Braille Monitor
>  spurs me on to  communicate with you on the ever present question (to some,
> anyway)  on the benefits of learning braille. July's, article, "Saying
> No to Reading Braille" is another "must" read. With the NFB
> view regarding the overwhelming importance for those who are blind, significantly
> visually impaired and/or likely to lose more and more vision, the argument
> continues among both blind and sighted on whether someone really needs braille
> in their life, especially in this day of technology.  The unicycle comparison
> with the option of learning braille,  is not as silly as you might first
> think  - read this article and find out why... 
> Our state affiliate just completed our first BELL academy - we obviously
> believe in the benefits of braille... ...so why are we so convinced braille
> is still so relevant and important today...this article takes a little different
> twist on how we approach the whole topic and though it appeared in the Braille
> Monitor about a decade ago, it is as relevant as ever. Dianne
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