Anne Sullivan Macy

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

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#feeble #first #growth #living #mind

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. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#experience #gained #given #how #ideas

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

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#confused #depression #great #great war #how

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. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#education #educational #find #future #going

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. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#both #cannot #child #everything #him

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

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#need #predominantly #remote #schools #stressed

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

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#change #conclusion #experimenting #ideas #logical

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

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#bothered #deal #god #good #good deal

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

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#difficulties #firm #hold #knowledge #lift

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#humble #i #i am #proud #too