54 Quotes by Anne Sullivan

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.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

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

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

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

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.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.