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
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.
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 cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
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.
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.