Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan
Johanna "Anne" Mansfield Sullivan Macy, better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, she contracted trachoma, a highly contagious eye disease, which left her blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind where upon graduation she became a teacher to Keller when she was 20...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth14 April 1866
CountryUnited States of America
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.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
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!
It gives the first responders that extra information they might need to better protect the patients.
My role is to get native students through the school system as successfully as possible, ... Whatever that means, anything and 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.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
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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.
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.
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.