Looking through the history of world education, it is not difficult to find the track of human education development: how to change from aristocratic education serving the ruling class to civilian education that most people can benefit from; From single male education to single sex education; From education for large ethnic groups to education for ethnic minorities.

Until today, when we have entered the 2 1 century, the voice of educational fairness and equality is still hovering in the world from time to time. As a matter of fact, in some developing countries and regions, the education equity problems involving girls' education, minority education, disabled education, poor family education and migrant workers' children education are still outstanding and need to be solved urgently.

The convening of the Special Olympics and Paralympic Games in China has further enhanced people's understanding of special education. It is no accident that special education originated in Europe. On the one hand, Europe's productivity level was in the leading position in the world at that time; On the other hand, after the Renaissance, humanitarianism prevailed in Europe. Some compassionate teachers, doctors and priests have played an indelible role in the creation of special education in Europe.

The Rise of Special Education in Western Europe

Judging from the history of human development, general education has a history of thousands of years, while the development of special education has only been nearly 200 years. The development of special education started very late for many reasons, mainly due to the dual constraints of the development of social productive forces and the change of social concepts.

1760, a Frenchman, Lepp, founded the first school for the deaf in Paris, and openly enrolled deaf students, which opened the prelude to the development of special education in the world. 1784, the Frenchman Hovey established the first school for the blind in Paris, and the school adopted the braille teaching method.

1834, this braille teaching method was improved by Blair and became braille and touching writing, which greatly promoted the development of blind education.