Handbook of Perception, vol. V, Seeing

people must be given equal opportunities to those of the sighted, and it is contended that this has now been achieved in the United States of America. In about I830 three private schools for the blind were opened in the United States, and in general these followed the pattern of those already working in Europe. The first director of the Perkins Institution in Boston was Samuel Gridley Howe who did much to integrate the blind into the life of the general population. He was responsible a few years later for the opening of the first state school for the blind in Columbus, Ohio. Craft training was very important in these early blind schools, and has continued