Question

How did Helen motivate herself to learn?

Answer 1

Helen was a prodigy child since her early childhood! However, the challenges she faced were quite arduous---as if Nature had planned a special obstacle course for her to help her bring her best out! After being rendered blind and disabled in hearing and speaking, Helen's frustration to learn more and more about life mounted very high. However, after the arrival of Miss Sullivan, Helen felt a new hope in her life. Miss Sullivan was an exceptionally kind, caring, sympathetic and trained teacher for the visually impaired children; but Helen Had hearing disability combined with visual disability. This made the teaching learning more challenging. Helen was a very industrious girl; she always did her best to learn. She had such a natural, innate passion for learning which always motivated her. Manual alphabet, reading, arithmetic, etc., all were formidable challenges for her initially, but Helen overcame them. The most arduous of all of them was learning to speak. Learning to speak is almost an impossible task for those who are have hearing disability. So Helen had to work very hard. She had to repeat each word and sentence many times for the right tone and pronunciation. She practiced untiringly. At times she became discouraged and weary too; but the thought of going home and showing her newly learnt speech ability motivated her to keep making efforts.