Anne Sullivan's Quotes

Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 4, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.

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Anne Sullivan about Children:

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their ...
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Anne Sullivan about History:

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture ...
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Anne Sullivan about King:

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Anne Sullivan about Effort:

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take ...
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Anne Sullivan about Time:

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will ...
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Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 4, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American bookish best known for swine the speculative and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.

At the age of five, Sullivan granted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or writing skills. She standard her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind; soon after graduation at age 20, she became a assistant professor to Keller.

All quotes from Anne Sullivan sorted alphabetically:

Anne Sullivan about Effort:

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Anne Sullivan about Children:

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Anne Sullivan about History:

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

Anne Sullivan about World:

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Anne Sullivan about Education:

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Anne Sullivan about Education:

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Anne Sullivan about I Am:

I cannot explain it, but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Anne Sullivan about Love:

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Anne Sullivan about Life:

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Anne Sullivan about History:

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

Anne Sullivan about Growth:

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind, this privilege is mine.

Anne Sullivan about Child:

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

Anne Sullivan about King:

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Anne Sullivan about Experience:

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

Anne Sullivan about Children:

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan about Teacher:

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Anne Sullivan about Knowledge:

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Anne Sullivan about Time:

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Anne Sullivan about Stupid:

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Anne Sullivan about Success:

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Anne Sullivan about War:

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan about Education:

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

Anne Sullivan about God:

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Anne Sullivan about Change:

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Anne Sullivan about Teacher:

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Anne Sullivan about Humble:

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.