People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. Anne Sullivan Macy More Quotes by Anne Sullivan Macy More Quotes From Anne Sullivan Macy You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Anne Sullivan Macy sweetness inspirational-love inner-peace 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 Macy teaching education morning We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. Anne Sullivan Macy live-life selfish teacher I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences. Anne Sullivan Macy real teaching children Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it. Anne Sullivan Macy writing children thinking You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play. Anne Sullivan Macy flower rain love 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. Anne Sullivan Macy innovation light creative Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. Anne Sullivan Macy family success motivational 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 educational justice country I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. Anne Sullivan Macy doubtful difficulty arise 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 growth struggle mind If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't. Anne Sullivan Macy support parent important I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge. Anne Sullivan Macy acquisition communication teaching Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. Anne Sullivan Macy renaissance spirit world 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 teaching teacher children Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content. Anne Sullivan Macy silence darkness beautiful Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. Anne Sullivan Macy love children knowledge We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. Anne Sullivan Macy problem ideas thinking Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828 Anne Sullivan Macy grows language needs We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush Anne Sullivan Macy hedgehogs said mistake
