54 Quotes by Anne Sullivan

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

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

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

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

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 are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

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

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.