What Are The Arguments Against Deaf Education

From the ancient times and even today Deaf education has had arguments against which method is right or wrong. No matter which way the tides turned there have been important people there to help guide the Deaf educations along.

We will start with the great philosopher Aristotle. Now I know what you are thinking, why would I talk about Aristotle when it comes to Deaf education? It has been said that he is the first person ever recorded to have talked about Deaf culture. Even though he is a great philosopher he isn't always a positive person especially when it comes to the Deaf education system. He had theorized that people could only learn through listening to spoken language and that because Deaf people are unable to hear, they must be unable to learn entirely. Due to his powerful influence over people, the Deaf eventually were denied fundamental rights. Some of those rights were being able to own or buy land, get legally wed, and were deemed as “non-persons” and forced to have guardians with them. After some 2,000 years Aristotle’s theory was disputed during the renaissance when some scholars attempted to educate Deaf people for the first time and succeeded. Through the attempts it marked the creation of a signed language.
Bonet was seen as a pioneer for the education of the Deaf due to his successful methods in educating them. By using the methods from Pedro Ponce de Leon, Bonet was inspired to build upon those teachings and focused on writing, reading, lipreading, and manual signing. By using these methods Bonet succeeded in making the easiest and most successful method for improving verbal and nonverbal communication for the Deaf. With all his success in educating the Deaf with his methods Bonet became part of the modern history of sign