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" We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about. "
Anne Sullivan
Cry
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" 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! "
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" Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. "
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" I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. "
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" It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty! "
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" Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. "
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Eye
See
" 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. "
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Child
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" 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. "
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Yes
" The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. "
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Experience
" Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. "
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World
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" A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives. "
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People
Young
Think
" 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. "
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Future
Justice
True
" We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. "
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Problem
Thinking
" Yes, I am proud, and very humble too. "
Anne Sullivan
I Am
Am
Humble
" We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties. "
Anne Sullivan
Knowledge
Us
Philosophy
" The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. "
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Wonderful
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" The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. "
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War
Depression
World
" 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
Child
Touch
Think
" Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. "
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Dark
Humanity
Light
" People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. "
Anne Sullivan
See
People
Painful
" I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. "
Anne Sullivan
Rather
Highway
Break
" 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
Education
Teacher
Life
" 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
Mistake
Children
Great
" It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. "
Anne Sullivan
Mind
Privilege
Birth
" 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
Beginning
You
Time