Anne Sullivan Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

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

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.

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

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

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

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.

You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.

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

If this is a countrywide kind of preparedness thing, we should make use of the idea, ... We have a lot of tourists that come through our area and if they happen to be separated from their group and for whatever reason are alone and have no other identification but their cell phone, this could make a world of difference.

It gives the first responders that extra information they might need to better protect the patients.

I think that some people look at the school and take it as their school, and other people look at it as not their school, like it belongs to the town, ... But it varies. I don't want to say 'in all instances.' We've had valedictorians, salutatorians that are native students, so not everybody pushes it away.

My role is to get native students through the school system as successfully as possible, ... Whatever that means, anything and everything.

You do need more than just a little dab at it, because it's everyday life for a lot of these kids, ... Not all of them, but a lot.

We are putting on six early childhood classrooms. And that's what's going to be an appendage to the Northwest side of the building.

Q-Tips is such a universally recognized and beloved brand with so much versatility. We look forward to exploring some innovative ways activate their 'ultimate beauty tool' positioning and lifestyle connections.

This is a real successful brand with great name recognition and household penetration.

It's clear we had the authority ... to search, ... We would have subjected ourselves to another criticism. That we compromised their ability to conduct an investigation.

Again, it's an elective component for parents and students, but the support is there in the event that someone would like to take advantage of it,

The Friends need to get their act together and raise some money and the Chamber needs to do more than just give lip service, ... The dollars and cents of the facility is a monkey on the schools' back.