Anne Sullivan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.”

“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.”