Helen Keller - Scene at the Water Pump

Helen Keller's life changed when she first understood that the cool, flowing substance coming from this pump, near the cottage where she was living with her teacher, had a name.  When she connected the word "water" with the water itself, the concept of language clicked for her.  She instantly knew, for the first time since she became blind and deaf, that language connects people. Anne Sullivan had turned on the learning spriket inside her student's brain just like she had turned on the water spriket inside the water pump.

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