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Anne Sullivan
American
Educator
Born:
Apr 14
,
1866
Died:
Oct 20
,
1936
Cannot
Education
Knowledge
People
Think
World
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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
Time
You
Remember
Will
Stronger
Beginning
Purpose
Glad
Fail
Failing
Over
Perhaps
Until
Accomplished
Began
Again
Each
Grow
Keep
Each Time
Start
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Anne Sullivan
Selfish
Imagination
Desperately
Our
Cling
Existence
Escape
Want
Commonplace
Chains
Imagine
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
Teacher
Morning
Heart
Joy
Light
Mind
Singing
Understanding
Changed
Pupil
All Things
Miracle
Behold
Happened
Little
Things
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.
Anne Sullivan
Education
Me
Idiot
Beginning
Every
Think
Systems
Kind
Must
Seem
Supposition
Built
Am
Up
Child
Suspect
Taught
Elaborate
Special
Who
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
Anne Sullivan
World
Free
Every
Spirit
Cry
Renaissance
Human
Human Spirit
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
Think
About
Observation
Excite
Put
Know
Powers
Nonsense
Off
Falsehoods
Discrimination
Children
Them
Growing
Things
Desire
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
Success
People
See
Insignificant
Seldom
Steps
Most
Achieved
Which
Success Is
Painful
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
Rare
First
Living
Birth
Mine
Rare Privilege
Struggles
Feeble
Privilege
Growth
Watch
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.
Anne Sullivan
Good
History
Culture
Good Job
Job
Think
Some
More
Area
Could
Very
Little
Use
Teachers
Help
Who
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
Anne Sullivan
King
Rather
Highway
Handkerchief
Than
Stones
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
Life
Education
Teacher
Perseverance
Will
My Life
Distinguishing
Know
Accomplish
Brains
Child
Quite
Much
Event
Need
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
Teacher
Everything
Apt
Wills
Both
He
Him
His
Child
Cannot
Processes
Painful
Teaching
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
Anne Sullivan
History
Humanity
World
Dark
Light
Point
Lift
Observation
Clear
Periods
Falls
Where
Certain
Suddenly
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
Education
Knowledge
Creative
Light
Innovations
Some
Spirited
Both
Purpose
Calls
Current
Substance
Present-Day
Need
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
Education
Truth
Future
Justice
Country
Resources
Unless
Way
Immediate
Find
Purpose
Vast
True
Making
Educational
Tragic
Going
Us
Serve
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
Sad
You
Nothing
Nice
About
Feel
Particular
Like
Cry
Make
Stories
Us
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!
Anne Sullivan
Experience
People
Matter
Advice
Emergency
Had
Almighty
Wrong
Ready
Always
Opinions
How
Real
How Many Times
Continue
Queer
Times
Any
Them
Forth
Many
Shown
Received
Imaginary
Set
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
Anne Sullivan
Knowledge
Difficulties
Our
Philosophy
Out
Lift
Firm
Any
Hold
Us
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