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
If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.
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.
Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
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.
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
If this is a countrywide kind of preparedness thing, we should make use of the idea, ... We have a lot of tourists that come through our area and if they happen to be separated from their group and for whatever reason are alone and have no other identification but their cell phone, this could make a world of difference.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828