Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes - Page 2

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• Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

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  Beautiful, Silence, Darkness

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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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  Stupid, Eye, Agitation

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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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  School, Stressed, Needs

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• Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

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  Needs, Language, Grows

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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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  Nice, Memorable, Stories

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• I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

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  Kings, Hem, Stones

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• Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

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  Humble, Proud

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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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  Education, Children, Learning

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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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  Responsibility, People, World

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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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  Children, Names, Ideas

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• We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

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  Philosophy, Holding On, Difficulty

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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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  Ideas, Imagination, Trying

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• The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

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  Confused, War, World

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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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  Teacher, Jobs, Thinking

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