Helen’s association with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell was at the age of six in Washington in the year 1886.It was on the advice of Dr. Bell Helen’s parents sent her to speech classes at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston which proved to be the foundation of Helens education and life. In fact, Helen has dedicated her autobiography The Story of My Life to Dr. Bell, an inventor and a teacher of the deaf. Helen was greatly fascinated with the sympathetic and tender nature of Dr.Bell and visited him at his home and laboratory. It was on his suggestion that Helens father wrote to Mr. Anagnos and subsequently found Miss Sullivan as a teacher. Dr. Bell accompanied Helen and Miss Sullivan on their visit to the Worlds Fair in 1893. Dr. Bell who is a wonderful and patient teacher could instill enthusiasm in his students with his delightful explanations. Helen notes that Dr. Bell was a humourous person and a poet with unlimited love for children, especially for the deaf. Alexander GrahamBell and Helen Keller got along very well and remained good friends.

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. dr. GrahamBell was a famous American innovator. He was a remarkable person and had always
been very kind and helpful to Helen and Miss Sullivan. It was he who introducedMr. Anagnos to her parents, and Miss Sullivan who came to teach her at her
home. Whenever Helen was in difficulty, Dr. Bell extended a helping hand toher.
He showedand explained many of his experiments to Helen. Helen felt indebted to him and
acknowledged her indebtedness to him, quoting that he brought her from darkness
to light, from isolation to friendship, knowledge and love.

Helen visited the World Fair with him; and he told her how autophones and other inventions made communication easier in the world. He described each object in the electrical world to her with utmost interest. Helen spent many days in his laboratory listening to his experiments. These experiences matured Helen and
she felt that she had taken a great leap from the world of fairy tales to thereal practical world.

Besides being caring and kind, he was humorous and poetic also. He was very fond of
children. He did a lot to improve the life of the disabled. Dr. Bell remained as a sustaining influence in Helen’s life. In spite of being a great man of high status, he was very modest, noble and sympathetic.