Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences…Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

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!

You can’t touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

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.

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

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