helen's experience in radclif in 200 words
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Helen’s wish to join Radcliff College was fulfilled in the
fall of 1900 after a considerable effort. She was so excited at the prospect of
studying with girls who could see and hear. She began her studies with
eagerness hoping to find a reality match to her world of imagination at the
college. The lecture-halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and the
wise, and she thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom. However, a
bitter disillusionment awaited her. She soon discovered that college was not
quite the romantic place she had imagined. Helen expresses her disillusionment
in the following words: “Many of the dreams that had delighted my young
inexperience became beautifully less and "faded into the light of common
day." Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to
college.”
Helen felt at college there was lack of time. Learning was
imparted at a fast pace without considering whether it was being imbibed or
not. Inside the class Helen felt ‘practically alone’. The professor appeared to
be as remote as if he were speaking through a telephone. The lectures were
spelled into her hand as rapidly as possible, and much of the individuality of
the lecturer was lost to her in the effort to keep in the race. Helen describes the hurry in the following simile:
“The words rush through my hand like hounds in pursuit of a hare which they
often miss.”
So we see Helen was not much impressed with her experience
at Radcliffe College.
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College did not live up to Helen Keller’s expectations because she previously loved learning for the sake of learning and she felt that college did not allow for that.
Helen Keller was very excited to finally go to college, because she worked so hard to get there being blind and deaf. This was especially the case because she had to wait a year after being admitted to continue preparations. She had built it up in her mind, and therefore there was bound to be some disappointment. Radcliffe was not the paradise she expected.
For one thing, she complained about the lack of time she had in college. Helen felt that she no longer had time to reflect. She was no longer learning just for the joy of learning.
But in college, there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures–solitude, books and imagination–outside with the whispering pines. (Ch. 20)
Helen felt that college was not the “Athens” she thought it would be, because some of the people were possibly just pretenders and not geniuses.
Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. (Ch. 20)
One of the biggest problems is that very few of the books she needed were printed in Braille. As a result, she had to have them spelled into her hand. This naturally made everything take longer for her to learn. Helen often lost her temper. In the end, however Helen felt that the experience taught her patience and was a worthwhile adventure despite the struggle.