louis braille the man

who created an alphabet for the blind

i became blind when i was a child

there were very few books for people who

couldn't see it was very difficult for

us to learn how to read and write

we needed an easy system could i

invent one

[Music]

when i was a child i was curious like

most boys

my father had a workshop and made

harnesses for horses

he had a lot of tools that i was

interested in

one day i picked up an awl a very

sharp tool from my father's table and i

started playing with it

suddenly i tripped and fell they all

hurt my eye badly the doctor tried to

help me

but my eye became infected soon my other

eye became infected too

i was five years old when i couldn't see

the sun

the fields or the blue sky anymore

we lived in cuprey the small town east

of paris

at school i couldn't run or play with

the other boys

it was difficult to learn because i

couldn't read or write

my teacher and the local priest tried

hard to teach me

but i didn't make much progress i was

slower than the other children in the

class

my parents were very worried about my

future

they didn't want me to become a beggar

they wanted me to study

one day my father heard of kansva

a school for blind people in paris and

decided to take me there

i was 10 years old and full of hope when

i arrived

to school do you have books for a blind

person

was my first question to dr gil the

doctor in charge of the school

i was pleased to hear that they had this

is the right place for me i thought but

soon i found out

that life with kansva was very hard

the school wasn't a pleasant place the

building was 500 years old and the rooms

were cold and damp

and dr giel wasn't a pleasant man

he was a cruel man who hit his students

and used very unkind words to describe

blind people

i was very upset at cancer

students weren't taught how to read or

write

dr gil wasn't interested in that

we were taught how to make baskets

chairs

and slippers for dr geal we weren't

students

we were workers

he sold the beautiful things that we

made

i was sad lonely and a long way from

home

my parents didn't know that my life was

so hard

although the school was bad it was the

only place that had

books for blind people the books were

large

heavy and expensive the letters were

raised from the page

and i felt them with my fingers the

problem was that i took a very long time

to read

each word when i got to the end of the

sentence

i couldn't remember the beginning but i

wanted to read

there were 14 books in the school and i

decided

to read them all

[Applause]

things got better when in 1821

dr pinier became the director of the

school

we started to have music lessons i loved

to play music

and it became my favorite hobby it was

much easier than

reading because i didn't need to read

music

i could play by ear i was asked to play

at many

churches in paris it was good to be

outside the school

people said nice things to me i was paid

for my work

and i had my own money for the first

time in my life

this meant a lot to me

when i was 12 years old charles barbier

who worked for the army

visited our school he told us about the

system that his army used to read in the

dark

they couldn't use light because the

enemy might see them

so they used a system with 12 dots and

dashes

the system was difficult but it gave me

an idea when i returned home

for a holiday i started working on my

idea

i went to my father's workshop and

picked up an awl

the tool that hurt my eye to invent a

new system for reading and writing

i used the all to raise dots on a page

barbie's system had 12 symbols

my system was easier it had only six

in 1824 i was 15 years old and i had a

basic

system five years later the first book

was published

it was called method of writing words

and

music and plain songs by means of dots

for use by the blind and arranged for

them

the system was called the braille system

i was very happy with my system

but most teachers didn't want to use it

they weren't blind

and they didn't need it they preferred

the old system

with raised letters because they didn't

want to learn

something new but i continued to use it

and started to teach people to use it in

1834

it was shown at an exhibition in paris

i became a teacher at my old school

my students made progress quickly and

this made me very happy

but i was ill and i began to feel

very weak the damp conditions in the

school weren't good for my health

but the doctor said that i had

tuberculosis

and in 1844 i had to stop

teaching but my students continued to

use

my system and then little by little

the system spread to other schools and

other parts of the world

it became the reading and writing system

for the blind

my students kept the braille system

alive

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louis braille 为盲人创造字母表的人

我小时候失明了

很少有书是给

看不见的人看的

我们很难学习如何阅读和写作

我们需要一个简单的系统才能

我小时候发明了一种[音乐] 我和大多数男孩一样好奇

我父亲有一个作坊并

为马制作马具

他有很多我感兴趣的工具

有一天我拿起一个锥子，这是一种非常

锋利的工具 我父亲的桌子和我

开始玩

突然我绊倒了他们都

严重伤害了我的眼睛医生试图

帮助我

但我的眼睛很快被感染了我的另一

只眼睛也被感染了

我五岁的时候看不到

不再晒田野或蓝天

我们住在库普里 巴黎以东的小镇

上学 我不能跑步或和其他男孩一起玩耍

学习很困难，因为我

不会读或写

我的老师和当地的牧师

努力教我，

但我没有 进步不大 我

比班上其他孩子慢

我的父母非常担心我的

未来

他们不想让我成为乞丐

他们想让我学习

有一天我父亲听说 kansva

有一所盲人学校 巴黎并

决定带我去那里

当我到学校时，我 10 岁，满怀希望

你有给盲人的书吗？这

是我向负责学校的医生吉尔博士提出的第一个问题

我很高兴听到他们

我认为这是适合我的地方，但

很快我发现在

kansva 的生活非常

艰难，学校不是一个令人愉快的地方，

这栋建筑已有 500 年的历史，

房间又冷又湿

，吉尔博士不是 和蔼可亲的人

他是个残忍的人 打他的

学生 用非常不友好的词来形容

盲人

我对癌症很不高兴

没有教学生如何阅读或

写作

吉尔博士对

我们被教如何制作不感兴趣

博士用篮子椅子和拖鞋 Geal 我们不是

学生

我们是工人

他卖掉了我们做的美丽的东西

我很伤心 孤独 离家很远

我的父母不知道我的生活

如此艰难

尽管学校很糟糕 这是

唯一的地方 有

给盲人的书 书又

大又

重又贵 字母是

从书页

上抬起来的，我用手指摸到它们

问题是当我读到句子的结尾时，我花了很

长时间阅读

每个单词

不记得开始了，但我

想

读学校里有 14 本书，我

决定

把它们都读一遍

[掌声]

当 1821 年

皮尼尔博士成为

学校校长时，

我们开始上我喜欢的音乐课

演奏音乐

并成为我最喜欢的爱好 它

比阅读要容易得多，

因为我不需要阅读

音乐

我可以用耳朵演奏 我被要求

在巴黎的许多教堂演奏 能在

校外

很好 人们说很好 给我的东西 我的工作得到了报酬

，我有生以来第一次有了自己的钱

这对我来说意义重大，

当我 12 岁时

，为军队工作的查尔斯·巴比尔

参观了我们的学校，他告诉我们

他的军队的制度 以前在黑暗中阅读

他们不能使用光因为

敌人可能会看到他们

所以他们使用了一个有 12 个点和

破折号

的系统这个系统很困难但是

当我回家度假时它给了我一个想法

我开始研究我的

想法

我去了我父亲的工作室，

拿起了一个锥子

那个伤害我眼睛的工具 发明了一个

新的阅读和写作系统

我用所有的东西在页面上提出了点

芭比娃娃的系统有 12 个符号

我的系统更容易它只有六个

1824年我15岁，五年后我有了一个

基本的

系统，第一

本书出版

了，叫做用点写词

和

音乐和简单的歌曲的方法，

供盲人使用并为他们安排

这个系统被称为

我以前的盲文系统 对我的系统非常满意，

但大多数老师不想使用它，

他们不是盲人

，也不需要它，他们更喜欢

带有凸起字母的旧系统，因为他们

不想学习

新东西，但我继续使用 它

并于 1834 年开始教人们使用它

它在巴黎的一个展览上展出

我在我的旧学校当老师

我的学生进步很快，

这让我很高兴，

但我病了，我开始感到

非常虚弱 学校潮湿的环境

对我的健康不利，

但医生说我得了

肺结核

，1844年我不得不停止

教学，但我的学生继续

使用

我的系统，然后

系统逐渐蔓延到其他学校和

其他地方 世界上

它成为盲人的阅读和写作系统

我的学生让盲文系统保持

活力