Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes

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

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  Inspirational Love, Inner Peace, Sweetness

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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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  Education, Morning, Teaching

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• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

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  Motivational, Family, Success

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

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  Teacher, Selfish, Live Life

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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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  Love, Flower, Rain

  "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 6), 1903.

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

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  Success, Education, Inspirational Life

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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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  Arise, Difficulty, Doubtful

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• 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.

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  Children, Writing, Thinking

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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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  Light, Creative, Innovation

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

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  Struggle, Growth, Mind

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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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  Communication, Teaching, Acquisition

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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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  Country, Educational, Justice

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

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  Children, Real, Teaching

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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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  Independent, Thinking, People

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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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  World, Renaissance, Spirit

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• Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

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  Love, Children, Knowledge

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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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  Thinking, Ideas, Problem

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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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  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

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  Mistake, Hedgehogs, Said

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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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  Children, Mistake, Educational

  "Helen Keller: A Life". Book by Dorothy Herrmann, University of Chicago Press, p. 56, 1999.

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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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  Support, Parent, Important

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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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  Fall, Dark, Light

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• 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.

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  Real, Intellectual, Intelligence

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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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  Children, Real, Thinking

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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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  Women, Memorable, Reality

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