In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many wealthy colonists sent their deaf children to Europe to receive schooling.[3] The best known deaf educational institution was the Braidwood Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland, established in 1760 by Thomas Braidwood as the "Academy for the Deaf and Dumb."[4] The Braidwood Academy was an expensive private oral school that was very secretive about its methods, only sharing their methodology with a few select people.[4]