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.

Death
Sullivan had been seriously visually impaired for almost all of her life but by 1935 Anne Sullivan was completely blind in both eyes. When Helen graduated from Perkins Anne followed her to New York City where they frequented the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf. However within a few years the marriage began to disintegrate.