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Anne Sullivan [1866-1936] American

Rank: 101
Educator, Teacher

Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy, better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.

Knowledge, Education, Teacher, Imagination, Change, Future, Great, Morning, Parenting, Sad, Success, Sympathy, Time, Truth

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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.	Time	101
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.	Sympathy	102
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.	Great, Parenting	103
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.		104
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.		105
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.	Success	106
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.	Change	107
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.	Imagination	108
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.	Education, Future, Truth	109
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.	Education, Knowledge	110
If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.		111
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.		112
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!		113
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.	Knowledge	114
Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.		115
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.		116
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.		117
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.		118
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.		119
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.	Teacher	120
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.	Education, Teacher	121
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!	Morning, Teacher	122
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.	Knowledge	123
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.		124
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.		125
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.	Imagination, Knowledge	126
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.		201
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.		202
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.	Sad	203
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.		204
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.		205

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