Anne Sullivan

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

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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! ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#behold #changed #happened #heart #joy

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

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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

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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. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

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

— Anne Sullivan

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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

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

— Anne Sullivan

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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

#cry #feel #like #make #nice