Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

thumb|Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was an American Congregational minister (without a pastorate), educator, and author. He was one of three co-founders of the Western Hemisphere's first permanent institution for the Education of the Deaf education of the deaf and became its first principal when it opened in April 1817. The institution is now named the American School for the Deaf. Washington, D.C.'s Gallaudet University was named in honor of him in 1894. In June 1983 the United States Postal Service honored him by issuing a Great Americans series 20¢ postage stamp. Quotes Some may deem it almost unnecessary, to go into an argument, with children and youth, to prove to them, that there is a God: a truth, which seems, too often, to be taken for granted, not only in the first stages, but through the whole course, of their religious instruction—how wisely, may admit of very serious doubts.It is a truth, on which all the doctrines and precepts of religion rest; and just in proportion as the belief of it is weak, or obscure, will all the other truths of religion, fail to have their full effect upon the heart and the life. The Youth's Book on Natural Theology American Tract Society 1832 9780598680099 https://books.google.com/books?id=sJwPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA5 5 (231 pages) All the histories in the Bible were written to teach us good things, and to show us how we must love and obey God, that we may go to heaven when we die, and be happy there for ever. The History of Jonah, for Children and Youth: Designed Also as an Aid to Familiar Biblical Exposition in Families, Sabbath Schools, and Bible Classes Volume 29 of Youth's library American Tract Society 1833 https://books.google.com/books?id=pZU9gPuJPD8C&pg=PA1 1 (156 pages) … this natural language of signs ... is not an arbitrary, conventional language. It is, in the main, picture-like and symbolical, corresponding. in these respects, to the ideas and objects which it is used to denote. 1848 On the natural language of signs and its value and uses in the instruction of the deaf and dumb—part 1 American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb volume-1 1 55–60 https://books.google.com/books/about/American_Annals_of_the_Deaf.html?id=uKxKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58 (quote from pp. 57–58) Quotes about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Mr. Gallaudet's reputation as a scholar at Andover Theological Seminary Andover was so high, and the faith of his instructors in his success as a preacher so strong, that before the completion of his theological studies he received several flattering invitations to take charge of vacant pulpits.Among them was a very earnest call from the "North Parish" of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Portsmouth, N. H., of which Rev. Dr. Buckminster had long been the pastor, signed by John Langdon (politician) John Langdon, Ammi Ruhamah Cutter (physician) Ammi R. Cutter, Daniel Webster (then just commencing his career in Congress), and Henry Ladd. Edward Miner Gallaudet, Life of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet: Founder of Deaf-mute Instruction in America Henry Holt & Company 1888 https://books.google.com/books?id=7lEzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA41 41 (339 pages) External links Category:1787 births Category:1851 deaths Category:Educators from the United States Category:People from Philadelphia Category:Yale University alumni Category:Congregational ministers