What were Mary Hare’s principles of teaching and what were her methods for “good” speech?
Mary Hare’s teaching principles were guided by Thomas Arnold and in particular, by one of his books titled “Education of the Deaf Mutes” in which he stated that from his own experience, deaf children should intellectually be given an opportunity to talk. The book also contains studies of the history of deaf education, an anatomy of the speech organs and phonetics. Arnold, and Mary Hare in turn, were profoundly influenced by Pestalozzi and Frochel. The former sought ways of developing speech and language in deaf children that would be consistent with the principles of the latter. Mary Hare herself had a policy that lipreading, reading and speaking should be relevent to activity, that all lessons irrespective of subjects were language lessons to practice lipreading and speaking whole sentences with activity to reinforce the learning. The teaching principles took a long time to become well established at schools. Mary Hare persevered and went out of her way to make her principles known to
