Quotes by : Anne Sullivan

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing....

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational....

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers....

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both....

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to....

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone....

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

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel....

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

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.