Anne Sullivan

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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!”