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 wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
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.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
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.
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.