Bell had his own theories about the threat that people with disabilities represented to the future of the species. His mother and wife had both been born deaf, and in 1883 he warned the National Academy of Sciences that unless the use of sign language was vigorously discouraged in schools for the deaf, society ran the risk of engendering "a race of deaf-mutes."

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Bell had his own theories about the threat that people with disabilities represented to the future of the species. His mother and wife had both been born deaf, and in 1883 he warned the National Academy of Sciences that unless the use of sign language was vigorously discouraged in schools for the deaf, society ran the risk of engendering "a race of deaf-mutes."" in the context of "Steve Silberman NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (2015) p 112" to mean that wisdom is timeless.