On March 3rd of 1847, Alexander Bell was born in the Scottish city of Edinburgh.
He was son to the famous elocutionist Alexander Melville Bell and later himself adopted a middle name, Graham, out of admiration
of a family friend. He quickly went through grade school and went on to be educated at Royal high school in Edinburgh in what's
called the Barnton area. The school is often regarded as the oldest in Scotland and one of the oldest in Europe.
He graduated ahead of time at the age of 13. After graduation he began studying the elocution like alot his family before
him had.
Elocution is how to speak properly and use correct pronunciation, proper spoken grammar, and
tone for a situation. Alexander's father pioneered his own very important elocution teaching system called 'visible speach'. The
system uses symbols that show the proper positions of the tongue and lips. The system was usually used to teach the deaf
how to speak poper english (although the system was later ported to other languages) in order for them function in
a society which uses verbal communication as much as ours. Alexander studied long to become knowledged in all the ways
of his father's teaching system.
After learning the family trade of elocution Bell got a pupil-teacher position at Weston House
Academy at the age of 16. Alexander now worked at Marayshire, away from where he was attending high school. A year later,
When Bell was 17 he went to attend the university of Edinburgh, where he started concentrating more on the sciences rather
then just merely elocution. During 1866 and 1867 Alexander moved to Bath, England to teach at Somersetshire College and later
returnedto his family in 1867.
