Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes
You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
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.
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.
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
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.
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
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 are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
