Anne sullivan

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

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

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

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

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.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

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

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

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as...

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