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
The Friends need to get their act together and raise some money and the Chamber needs to do more than just give lip service, ... The dollars and cents of the facility is a monkey on the schools' back.
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.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
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!
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.
Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
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.
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.
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