Anne Sullivan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.”

“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.”

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

“I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”

“The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.”

“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 if they had received them from the Almighty!”

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

“Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.”

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