As the Twig is Bent

by Kenneth Jernigan (Editor)

Our behavior and beliefs as adults are, to a large extent, determined by what happens to us when we are growing up. This third Kernel Book is largely focused on that theme - what today's blind children are being taught about themselves and what happened to yesterday's blind children, those who are today's adults.

116 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Dianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

IF you are blind, losing your sight or are an alli and support to someone who is blind, this book may be a great read for you. It is basically a small collection of stories that demonstrate the needs of the blind and diminished sight people to be trained to use the white cane, read Braille and to be considered able to work in most fields. The one story I truly appreciated was of a mathematician. "To Light a Candle with Mathematics" by Abraham Nemeth. Nemeth loved mathematics and was discouraged all along the way to follow that course of education. He was encouraged to follow psychology but he used all his elective courses to continue learning mathematics. He developed the Braille characters necessary to open top higher mathematics to the blind world. I am trained in mathematics and I struggle to do computations without seeing it on paper. I am in great awe of this man who was able to visualize the great world of math without seeing any of the computations directly. He was also able to become a professor of mathematics and use the chalkboard to work out his math. He was a tutor in a time where they had a room of blackboards and he would go person to person and ask them to dictate what they were able to compute. Then he would point out their error or give them a hint as to the next step. He actually got his first mathematics teaching job because the chairman of mathematics watched how effectively he was able to tutor a whole roomful of students with just this type of teaching. Each student would do all the work they were able and he would come along and prompt them forward. This is exactly how the homeschooling community teaches. I loved this story.

[Sandy Carmichael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good insight to the thoughts for visionally impaired people.

[Mark Tadder · Rating 5 out of 5]

I particularly like this one. Really good stories and perspectives