Anne Sullivan

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. ”

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. ”

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful. ”

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. ”