The Eyes and the Ears
The world in which we live has beautiful scenes, beautiful landscapes, beautiful colors. They are pleasant to see, it is delightful to look at these things. Colors Nevertheless, I always told my students that the ears are more important for our everyday life than the eyes. Many of them did not believe me. My ophthalmologist friends do not believe me. There is no question that these are our two most important sense organs. But let us examine this problem in more detail. Mankind has something very important called Language. It allows us to communicate. It is something that we acquire with our ears. Congenital deafness makes it very difficult to acquire a language, we need a special education to obtain it. And acquiring a language is so important that most of the acquisition happens between the ages of two months and two years – an age we do not remember. But we do remember going to school and learning to read. To acquire a language is much more difficult for the Central Nervous S...