Anne Sullivan

“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose.”

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”

“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”

“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!”

“Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”

“The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

“Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for a new enthusiasm and a new realization of present-day opportunities.”

“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose.”

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”

“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”

“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.”

“Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

“We are, all of us, so much more than we have any idea of being.”

“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.”