We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. Anne Sullivan More Quotes by Anne Sullivan More Quotes From Anne Sullivan 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. Anne Sullivan grow you time remember Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. Anne Sullivan free cry spirit world Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. Anne Sullivan more guidance sympathy children Yes, I am proud, and very humble too. Anne Sullivan yes i-am proud humble The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. Anne Sullivan student need things experience I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. Anne Sullivan highway king than break A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives. Anne Sullivan think effort train people 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. Anne Sullivan great parenting mistake children 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. Anne Sullivan perseverance education teacher life People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. Anne Sullivan see painful success people 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 light heart morning teacher 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 everything child painful teacher 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 how experience imagination knowledge 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. Anne Sullivan i-am mind love knowledge It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. Anne Sullivan living privilege growth mind We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. Anne Sullivan problem change ideas thinking 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. Anne Sullivan will better child think Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. Anne Sullivan light humanity history world 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 light purpose education knowledge The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. Anne Sullivan suit truth-is truth enough
