"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and……" — Anne Sullivan Macy
"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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33 Quotes by Anne Sullivan Macy
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You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
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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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We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to…
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Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the…
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously…
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A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their…
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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege…
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If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and…
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No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a…
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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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You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the…
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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…
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