All Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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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.
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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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We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
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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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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.
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Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
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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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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.
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The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
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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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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
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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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The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
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