Anne Sullivan

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.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

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.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

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

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

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

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

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.