Alexander Graham Bell always loved to lend a helping hand. Contributing to help the deaf was a huge priority of his. He had wanted to facilitate the speaking of the deaf ever since he supported his father. In 1871 Bell moved to Boston to teach at Sarah Fuller’s School for Deaf, the first such school in the world. Another occupation of his was tutoring private students. Alexander was blessed to have the opportunity to tutor pupils that graciously appreciated his help; one of them being the be loved, Mrs. Helen Keller. As a professor of vocal physiology and speech at Boston University in 1873, he initiated conventions for teachers of the deaf. Throughout Bell’s life he continued to educate the deaf, and he founded the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. While testing different telegraphs to try and help the deaf, Bell met his wife. Funds came from the fathers of two of his pupils; one of these men, Gardiner Hubbard, had a deaf daughter, Mabel, who later became Alexander’s spouse. Educating the deaf was a tremendous honor to Bell. Alexander Graham Bell showed us that even though you are only one human soul on this Earth, if you stop and think about what major gift you can do to endow others in need, it will make you feel like you have just accomplished your greatest challenge yet in life.
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