Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes

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• You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
• The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
• 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.
• 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…
• Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
• A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
• It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
• 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…
• 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…
• Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
• 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…
• 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…
• Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
• We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush
• We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
• 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…
• I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
• Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.
• 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,…
• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

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