Collected Meditations
Showing 31 quotesNo 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.— Anne Sullivan
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.— Anne Sullivan
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.— Anne Sullivan
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!— Anne Sullivan
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.— Anne Sullivan
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.— Anne Sullivan
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.— Anne Sullivan
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.— Anne Sullivan
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.— Anne Sullivan
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.— Anne Sullivan
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.— Anne Sullivan
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.— Anne Sullivan
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.— Anne Sullivan
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.— Anne Sullivan
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.— Anne Sullivan