Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan
Johanna "Anne" Mansfield Sullivan Macy, better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, she contracted trachoma, a highly contagious eye disease, which left her blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind where upon graduation she became a teacher to Keller when she was 20...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth14 April 1866
CountryUnited States of America
It gives the first responders that extra information they might need to better protect the patients.
My role is to get native students through the school system as successfully as possible, ... Whatever that means, anything and everything.
You do need more than just a little dab at it, because it's everyday life for a lot of these kids, ... Not all of them, but a lot.
We are putting on six early childhood classrooms. And that's what's going to be an appendage to the Northwest side of the building.
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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.
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.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.
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.