Children's Digest, May 1st, 2004
Only three books in the school library. And young Louis Braille, who had come to this strange, lonely place to learn to read, could read none of them.
Louis Braille was only ten years old when he became a student at the National Institute for Blind Youth in Pads. In that year of 1819, most blind children were unwanted, ridiculed, and often abandoned in the streets of the city, left to beg or survive in any way they could. Louis was more fortunate. His patient, loving parents were determined to do anything they could do to help their son try to reach his impossible goal--to become a teacher....
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