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
Anne Sullivan quotes about
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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.
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.
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.
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
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.
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
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.
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.
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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.