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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. ”

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! ”

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties. ”

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives. ”

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. ”