Editing Helen Keller (section)

==Formal education==
In May 1888, Keller started attending the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1893, Keller, along with Sullivan, attended William Wade House and Finishing School.<ref>{{citation|title=William Wade House and Finishing School|url=https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A20100212-ocl-0332|access-date=July 16, 2023|archive-date=July 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716170525/https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:20100212-ocl-0332|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1894, Keller and Sullivan moved to New York to attend the [[Wright-Humason School for the Deaf]], and to learn from [[Sarah Fuller (educator)|Sarah Fuller]] at the [[Horace Mann School for the Deaf]]. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts, and Keller entered [[The Cambridge School of Weston|The Cambridge School for Young Ladies]] before gaining admittance, in 1900, to [[Radcliffe College]] of [[Harvard University]],<ref name=radcliff>{{cite journal |title=Helen Keller in College – Blind, Dumb and Deaf Girl Now Studying at Radcliffe |journal=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=October 13, 1900 |page=16 |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1900/10/13/page/16/article/helen-keller-in-college |access-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-date=February 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213161305/http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1900/10/13/page/16/article/helen-keller-in-college/ |url-status=live }}</ref> where she lived in Briggs Hall, [[Cabot House|South House]]. Her admirer, [[Mark Twain]], had introduced her to [[Standard Oil]] magnate [[Henry H. Rogers|Henry Huttleston Rogers]], who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated  from Radcliffe as a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]],<ref>[https://www.pbk.org/Members "Phi Beta Kappa Members"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407145050/https://www.pbk.org/Members |date=April 7, 2020 }}. The Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK.org). Retrieved March 25, 2020.</ref> becoming the first [[deafblind]] person to earn a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree. She maintained a correspondence with the Austrian [[pedagogue]] and philosopher [[Wilhelm Jerusalem]], who was one of the first to discover her literary talent.<ref>[[Herbert Gantschacher]] "Back from History! – The correspondence of letters between the Austrian-Jewish philosopher Wilhelm Jerusalem and the American [[deafblind]] writer Helen Keller", Gebärdensache, Vienna 2009, p. 35ff.</ref>

Determined to communicate with others as conventionally as possible, Keller learned to speak and spent much of her life giving speeches and lectures on aspects of her life. She learned to "hear" people's speech using the [[Tadoma]] method, which means using her fingers to feel the lips and throat of the speaker.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cosslett |first1=Rhiannon Lucy |title=Helen Keller: why is a TikTok conspiracy theory undermining her story? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/07/helen-keller-why-is-a-tiktok-conspiracy-theory-undermining-her-story |access-date=March 17, 2021 |agency=The Guardian |date=January 7, 2021 |archive-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228003729/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/07/helen-keller-why-is-a-tiktok-conspiracy-theory-undermining-her-story |url-status=live }}</ref> She became proficient at using [[braille]],<ref>Specifically, the reordered alphabet known as [[American Braille]]</ref> and also used [[fingerspelling]] to communicate.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Johnson-Thompson |first1=Keller |title=Ask Keller – March 2005 |url=https://braillebug.org/askkeller.asp?issueid=20053#:~:text=Helen%20Keller%20actually%20never%20used,of%20manual%20signs%2C%20or%20fingerspelling |website=Braille Bug |publisher=American Printing House for the Blind |access-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307102229/https://braillebug.org/askkeller.asp?issueid=20053#:~:text=Helen%20Keller%20actually%20never%20used,of%20manual%20signs%2C%20or%20fingerspelling. |url-status=live }}</ref> Shortly before World War I, with the assistance of the [[Zoellner Quartet]], she determined that by placing her fingertips on a resonant tabletop she could experience music played close by.<ref name=Spectrum2>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131110155416/http://library.ndsu.edu/tools/dspace/load/?file=%2Frepository%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10365%2F21055%2Fnds-1917-10-31-0.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1 "First Number Citizens Lecture Course Monday, November Fifth", ''The Weekly Spectrum''], North Dakota Agricultural College, Volume XXXVI no. 3, November 7, 1917.</ref>