Quotes by Anne Sullivan

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

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"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."

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"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

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"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!"

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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