38 Quotes by Anne Sullivan Macy

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.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.