World Braille Day is celebrated in memory of Louis Braille, who invented a reading and writing system for visually impaired people.
This day is celebrated to honor this great man and his contribution to blind people in the world.
Today all over the world people are celebrating Braille Day in memory of the French educator and inventor.
United Nations commemorating a Braille day in memory of Louis Braille.
The UN is commemorating #WorldBrailleDay, on Monday, highlighting the importance accessible information, especially during the #COVID19 pandemichttps://t.co/80UGWMcUMI
— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) January 4, 2021
Louis Braille Life History
Louis Braille was born in Coupvray on 4th January 1809. Braille was not born blind, at the age of three his eye got injured by an awl, while he was playing with his siblings.
He eventually lost sight in one of his eyes and eventually lost the other due to infection.
Braille was very intelligent and diligent due to this he attended the first school for blind children in the world ‘The Royal Institute for Blind Youth’now known as National Institute for Blind Youth.
In that school, Braille learned to read using the Hauy system. He was an extremely attentive and fast learner because he attentively learn the lectures and repeatedly read Hauy’s books.
After school, he becomes a professor at the Institution and teaches geometry, history, and algebra.
He was also a talented cellist and organist.
Louis Braille invention of Braille Sytem
Louis Braille was determined to invent a system of reading and writing for blind people.
Braille learned about Charles Barbier’s communication system which was based on a code of up to twelve dots in two columns impressed into thick paper, which was interpreted entirely by the fingers.
Braille used his own idea and build his own system of reading and writing, which was less complicated than Barbier’s.
During his lifetime Braile system was not adopted by the institution. But after his death in 1852, it was adopted in 1854 because of the insistence of blind people.
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Famous Louis Braille Quotations
Today in celebration of this great intelligent man, sharing some quotations from Braille.
- Live without seeing, but be what you are
- Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we [the blind] are not to go on being despised or patronized by condescending sighted people. We do not need pity, nor do we need to be reminded we are vulnerable. We must be treated as equals – and communication is the way this can be brought about.
- Braille is Knowledge and Knowledge is Power
- We must be treated as equals and communication is the way we can bring this about