By Anne Sullivan Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today ... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

Anne Sullivan Macy

#5. 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

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

Anne Sullivan

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

Anne Sullivan

#8. Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Anne Sullivan Macy

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

Anne Sullivan

#10. 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

#11. We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Anne Sullivan

#12. 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

#13. We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Anne Sullivan

#14. The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Anne Sullivan

#15. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart

Helen Keller

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

Anne Sullivan

#17. Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.

Anne Sullivan Macy

#18. The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

Anne Sullivan

#19. Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Anne Sullivan

#20. 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

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

Anne Sullivan

#22. Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

Anne Sullivan Macy

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Anne Sullivan

#26. 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

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

Anne Sullivan

#28. We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Anne Sullivan

#29. 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

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

Anne Sullivan

#31. We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

Anne Sullivan Macy

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

Anne Sullivan

#33. You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Anne Sullivan Macy

#34. Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

Anne Sullivan

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

Anne Sullivan

#36. THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

Helen Keller

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

Anne Sullivan

#38. 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