38 Quotes by Anne Sullivan Macy

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

I’d rather break stones on the king’s highway than hem a handkerchief.

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

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

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.