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Anne Sullivan Macy

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I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.
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We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
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A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
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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!
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If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.
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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
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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.
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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
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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.
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I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
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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.
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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.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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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.
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Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.
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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.
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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
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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.
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You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.
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