It is an ongoing sadness that Annie Sullivan is sidelined; just a footnote. Annie should be on this list as a remarkable Woman of Achievement in her own right. Helen Keller did not achieve alone.
Helen Keller and her beloved teacher Annie are two of my heroes! Miss Sullivan was a remarkable woman who loved Helen like her own.After such a hard childhood the true courage of Annie is amazing! The love between them was so special!
This is the first time ever seen a a video of Helen Keller. I love the movie with Patty Duke. When I look at the Helen Keller's face I say she is actually beautiful and she doesn't know it. Inner soul is absolutely radiant
Now she knows it .Helen keller can see now and hear too .She is delivered of her handicaps once for all.She is in heaven wirh her mother, dad Sister and brother and her friends..and Annie sullivan.
@@severinefisteberg8893 yes she can see now if you can hear and she can speak now, Helen Keller's life is a testimony of how God can use people to show his strength and it encourages all of us, I'm sure that our heavenly father and Lord Jesus said to Helen Keller when she entered into heaven Oh, Well done thy good and faithful servant! Helen Keller was a real trooper and an instrument of God!
Helen Keller's story is extraordinary. Anne Sullivan, I can't say enough about her heart and talent. Two extraordinary women I greatly admire. Education is important.
I am absolutely fascinated with her ability to learn the complexity of language through letters, being it signs in her hands or the braille alphabet. Imagine never even having words for *anything*, and from there learn how to express yourself with alphabetical letters. Letters that correlates with *sound*, which you have never heared. And from that disadvantage this absolutely amazing woman could express abstract thoughts. She was truly extraordinary, in every sense of the word.
So true, and being able to read lips through touch. I tried touching braile the other day, and couldn't tell one letter from the other, here this woman is reading lips and hands. Just awesome.
Yes she was but it IS Thanks to Ann Sullivan her Angel who set her free from darkness and silent World and gave her mystèry of language ,abstract thoughts'.'..' this work took many Years to be achieved thanks to the persevérance of Ann ,her relentless days of difficult labour and teaching into Helen's hands ,her love and patience. Helen was a genius but she owes her success and happiness to Ann Sullivan and her mother Kate for a great part even if she was exceptionnaly gifted and talented .. without Ann Helen would have led a misérable life or a very ordinary life maybe in an institution for the blind but she would Never have accomplished what she did even with the will. Ann was her savior and gave her the Impulse ,the désire to have success. Never forger Ann😍😍😍.She is Her SAVIOR .😇
I have been in Helens house and sang with my church choir in her church with that choir at Christmas, it was a very moving and spiritual experience. So glad you know the details of the obituary you mentioned, that makes the past so valuable, doesn’t it?
Life giving w a t e r ❤️ No one can ever compare with what she was able to accomplish. Unlike the 13 people that disliked this video. They are truly blind.
25 uneducated ones now. I grew up in the south, Helen’s life story was taught in my school very well! I toured her home, any theatrical plays, etc... truly a miracle from God for Helen and Ann 🙏🏻🙌🏻❤️
It is a miraculous way how the brain finally puts 2 and 2 together, and the dawning of understanding just clicks in. I’m so proud of the movies made, and the education with patience was made to be known worldwide.
This is amazing she had a hard time communicate with others so good the teacher is so good at teaching Helen Keller never gave up!! So good even though she was so naughty
I agree. When my daughter was in pre-k (I enrolled her in parochial school) they taught her class sign language basics. Little did we know that by the time that she was graduating high school, her father would be completely deaf. He learned fast to read lips as he was not comfortable signing in public, but the simplicity of knowing some words and the alphabet made his heart sing. All this time, Emily had remembered everything she was taught. Hellen Keller was a true trail blazer for millions.
Helen Keller has always been one of my favorite historical people. In her childhood days, she had "sightless dreams and wordless thoughts" that have always amazed me in terms of how brilliant the determined mind can really be in order to communicate or convey one's on words, thoughts and opinions effectively.
Language is embedded in our brains. The magic is how her teacher persisted in finding a way to adapt a communication system for her. And Hellen was highly intelligent too.
I have always admired Helen & Annie. Our life's work is with people w disabilities. I am disappointed to see that Helen promoted abortion which discards the life of a pre-born child, especially if not "perfect" or convenient for others. I hope that Helen realized this later in her life.
Such an amazing woman. Her biography was the first chapter book I read. It was in 3rd grade. I picked it out because it was a pretty red color, not knowing how great the words in that book would be. She is truly, amazing and has the best attitude about life in general. People cry about not having certain things, but look at what this woman was thrown in life, and how she over came it. Just beautiful.
I have always loved Helen Keller, she’s my favorite person in history. She was an incredible person. This was a wonderful documentary about her. If I may, it didn’t mention anything about how she had learned to read Braille in many different foreign languages! I’m sight impaired myself, &, I can barely grasp the grade one Braille! It’s very difficult to learn. They also failed to say that she was asked by the American Foundation For The Blind to advocate for their new talking books program, she hesitated saying, “why?” But she did it anyway. Again, she was a fabulous person. Thank you for this wonderful documentary about her life.
Shes an inspiration to many. I’m hard of hearing and wear dual hearing aids. I sign but since I have some hearing I speak, too . My wife and children all know I don’t hear well but the rest of the world doesn’t so I adjust. You have to, just like Helen did. Just like the millions like us who appear with that “invisible challenge “ of hearing loss. You can’t tell by looking at us, the only way to know is when communication is attempted.
Helen Keller was born into a prestigious family and her father owning a printing company and knowing prominent figures, one of them being Alexander Graham Bell. The very person who opened the doors of who Mr. Keller should contact to help his daughter. I think if she was not born into a family that knew prominent figures and had the money to do so. I think it would have been a different story.
@@madison__baylee You're Welcome. I have a wonderful friend who happens to be blind also and she is a lawyer and works for a University and her husband is also blind and is a musical therapist and works with the elderly with Alzheimer's. They both are fantastic singers as well. They have a 3yr old little girl and 3 month baby girl who can both see.
I LOVE Helen Keller! I grew up learning about her, and my grandmama would take me to the Helen Keller Festival each summer in Tuscumbia, AL. So happy to find this video!
One life touched millions. Imagine what Helen Keller would have been if she had sight and hearing. I doubt we would even know her. "It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." Wm. Henley
We wouldnt have known her..Too normal if she had had sight and hearing after her illness..and Annie sullivan would have been useless not known from the kellers and everyone of us..maybe it was her fate..
Poor little Helen such a cutie as a baby at 1 second .She had to suffer terribly as a little child not to to bé able to speak with her Mouth and be understood Hence her tantrums .. poor baby shut in thé dark and silence.. Fortunately Ann arrived and changed her life ,taught her how to communicate to write ,read and learn. Ans many other things like affection and love. She was miserable and became great and highly intelligent. Thanks God. She was doomed to a poor life and to the Asylum and God sent her An Angel. .
Thank you very much! A very good video about Helen Keller! I have read things about her, articles, etc.… And have been so intrigued and fascinated and envious love her! Of her courage, etc.! Thank you so much again…
and yet we still fall short with including and fully educating those who are educable. my father was legally blind in both eyes and i was blind in one. we both managed to get our education in spite of neither of us having glasses until the age of 13. i was in a jr college witha deaf girl and she had to have an interpreter with her in class and to communicate with us. i wish we all were taught sign language from kindergarten. it seems as if we are getting less education than we did in the past, especailly as far as langiages.
A Japanese Helen Keller truly respected and called him“my teacher.” In 1937, Helen Keller came to Japan and visited Hokiichi's memorial house. She expressed her impression as follows: “When I was a child, my mother told me that Mr. Hanawa should be my role model. To visit this place and touch his statue was the most significant event during this trip to Japan. The worn desk and the statue facing down earned more respect of him. ” Hokiichi became blind when he was 5 years old. One summer night, a wife of a Samurai, read a book for Hokiichi. She found that he had tied up his hands together. Asked why he did so, Hokiichi replied, “Whenever I move my hand to get mosquitoes away, I tend to miss words of your reading. So as not to do that, I did this.”. He always studied with an attitude like this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--xgiB3-9VJk.html
A life a LAMP an heroin.My heroin who overcame all her handicaps! She was a HUGE HUMAN BEING WITH A GREAT HEART AND SO WAS ANN SULLIVAN..Greetings from france.I read the story of my life in french and english and dream to read other books not available in France..have a nice christmas full of HOPE AND LOVE.
The Arkansas school for the blind and visually impaired‘s main building is called the Helen Keller Memorial building when the building opened in 1939 when the blind school moved to its current location from Center Street in Little Rock Arkansas Helen Keller actually came to Little Rock for the dedication ceremony for the main building for the Arkansas school for the blind
I thought of Helen when I lost my hearing at the age of 21. Although I was not completely deaf I knew I was still capable of teaching. Now I’m fifty two. And my hearing is now gone due to the dease in both of my ears. I just tell my co workers. Just yell!!! I’ll get the idea. Yes. I think have hearing aids now. But yes I thought of her. In 1990. So she’s still being thought about even to this very day
Reading Helen Keller's " three days to see" changed my life, in 1981. And then I went to College to study Speach Pathology. Both Mrs Keller & Mrs Sulivan were remarkable!!! Great video.
I have always admired Helen & Annie. Our life's work is with people who have disabilities, to help discover their unique abilities & capacity for life & love. How sad then to hear that Helen promoted abortion, taking the life of a pre-born child who is not "perfect" or convenient. I hope that Helen came to realize this later in life.
she was one of the lucky few that had the means to an education, many others with less means rotted away in public disease ridden institutions. i had a coulsin who spent the last 3 years of his life in one. he could not walkand he had hydrocephalus that was not treated at that time. but he could hear and knew the sounds of different cars.he had to be institutionalized when his mom could no longer care for him but she went to visit him every single week.
That's deeply sad and tragic. Yes, our country's priorities are very misplaced. How a society treats its most vulnerable citizens tells everything about its character. We've never a proper job in that department.
I am very thankful that I watched this today - - I learned so much more about the scope of Helen Keller's brilliant and amazing life- no movie could do her justice-
Who cares about helen keller's political opinions?She had the right to have political opinions which were HERS..What's the point? We don't care about that.She was a brilliant woman who studied a lot and was determined and persevered all her life to be able to speak normally and teach other people and bring hope.That's all!
@@winandrews7786 The Miracle Worker. There are three versions, the original 1962 movie starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke (as Helen), the 2nd in 1979 starring Patty Duke (this time as Annie Sullivan) and Melissa Gilbert and the 3rd one done in 2000 which was a Disney movie.
@@winandrews7786 Yes 3 movies. A movie from 1962 "The miracle worker " with Patty duke ,ann Bancroft. A masterpiece ,a movie from 1979 but less brilliant ,a Disney version with hallie Heisenberg as Helen not Bad and the movie Délivrance from 1933 in black and white ,a silent movie but very very good.😍😍😍. it made me cry The first time.😭with Helen Keller in her role. Greattt!! Terrific. And read her Book " thé story of my life , blind deaf and mute " . A great Book a testimony of love and Hope and courage written by Helen Keller herself. A bible!!
We are from right next to Cambridge, but grew up in area. Our Greek yia yia grew up in Cambridge 20's-30's & then our dad his basically first real girlfriend worked at Perkins school! I didn't know Helen Keller & Annie came here. Just down the street in Medford where our other parents & grandparents were raised & where Amelia Earhart grew up, after her success they had a parade for her there. But yeah, I guess everyone originally traveled from this direction.😅...Also the Medford mentioned above thats where Black Dahlia came from.
It’s pretty amazing that everything Miss Sullivan could do Helen could do. When other teachers before were not able to. Also pretty amazing over a hundred years later no deaf and blind person has been able to achieve the same things.....
Cuando estava en octavo grado tuve que hacer una asignatura yo en particular.de ella.en ingles.no en español tuve que hacerla en una semana.lo logre y fue algo bello que marco mi vida y motivarme a ver la vida de otro perfil.gracias.
Clarification- Radcliffe College was compelled to not accept Helen Keller, because they assumed that Annie Sullivan would constantly help Helen. Helen did write the letter, was accepted, and precautions were taken to secure that Annie Sullivan didn't help Helen when Helen took tests, exams, etc. Helen was brilliant, did extremely well, and after graduating, opened the eyes and ears of the world. Never judge.
This is not just about Helen Keller pulling herself up from her bootstraps; it's not just that she didn't let her disability she was a very intelligent person, but was isolated and consequently disoriented because a lack of language made it much more difficult for her to connect with the world.
This is rediculous! She wasn’t completely blind( legally blind… not 100% blind) and she wasn’t completely fully 100% deaf either. It’s obvious if u watch more footage of her. Her teacher Ann was the real genius and hero of her story.. such a shame she wasn’t also awarded the Nobel prize
i cant comphrehend, how she asked for food water toilet, etc. if it was only after feeling the water on one hand and having the word spelt on the other hand, helped her connect the two things. Because they did say that she had limited hand sign language, before that revelation. i need it explained.
In the play and movie, "The Miracle Worker" she points to her mouth when she wants food. That is probably what they meant by a basic sign language. She had no concept of words until the memory of her baby word for water came back to her. So she could not have signed in words.
Some information I didn't know in this video. I didn't know she was multilingual. Also, I didn't know she wrote more than one book. I have a delightful photo of Helen with Eisenhower. He's grinning, and her hand is on his face. Her death in June of 1968 was overshadowed by Robert Kennedy's assassination.
Everyone has heard of Helen Keller and unquestioningly believed the story as gospel. After all, who wants to be the one who is seen as doubting a deaf and blind person’s achievements? Rewatch Helen’s movements and mannerisms and tell me she acts the way other blind people the world over for centuries look and act. I’ve never seen a truly blind person nod their head and smile graciously while meeting and interacting with people. She’s as graceful as Princess Diana. The only way she could learn that is through imitation. No swaying? No odd head movements or looking up and off into the distance like other blind people when in deep concentration? And we are to believe she could interpret and give speeches with hand spelling letter by letter? Not buying it. They sure had everyone fooled though and toured the world and even became Hollywood stars for a bit. 😀
Amazing story with Helen and Miss Sullivan. God's hand was definitely behind it all. However, how could Helen be for abortion? Who was teaching her? Who told her that it was okay to terminate pregnancy? I can't see her being someone, who the world could have easily tossed to the side because they would have thought her disability to be a nuisance, would actually think a child, a baby, to be a burden??? Something is not right about that...If you don't know Jesus Christ, I pray that you do because He truly wants to know you. He loves you. Jesus loves you and died for you and rose again on the third day so we can live. Give your life to Him. Make Him your Lord and Savior. Live for Him. Open your heart to HIs Holy Spirit and follow the Lord Jesus Christ, He will never lead you astray. God bless you!
Thank you for this very well said comment. I can’t say for certain, because, I have not read all of Helen Keller’s writings, but what I could find on the subject of abortion was non-existent. I agree with you, I find it difficult for her to have supported abortion. I feel this video and the makers of it have taken liberties with Helen’s stance on the very liberal ideas. I choose to believe she could only know what was relayed to her in the times she lived through. Basically her views came from reading others perception of news and world events, cultures, etc. Because her ability to communicate out to only those in her circle, Annie and those who may have assisted Annie, she did not have one on one conversations. She was unable to get a well rounded view of social and world views without it being filtered through someone else. She could not see the many things in these cultures, like M. $angers very obvious desire to bring abortion to minority communities to eradicate them. I pray too that she knew Jesus and followed him and was able to read His Word for herself.
Yes Amen..do not let anyone stop or slow you down you from spreading the gospel on and offline private or public believe it or not people are watching and listening..stay joyously in the faith
