Quotes from Anne Sullivan Macy

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

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

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

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

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.

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.

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.

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

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

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.

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

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

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.

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.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

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