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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.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: Accomplished Again Began Beginning Each Each Time Fail Failing Glad Grow Keep Over Perhaps Purpose Remember Start Stronger Time Until Will You

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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.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: Accomplish Brains Child Distinguishing Education Event Know Life Much My Life Need Perseverance Quite Teacher Will

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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: About Children Desire Discrimination Excite Great Growing Know Mistake Nonsense Observation Off Powers Put Them Things Think I Think

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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, all things are changed!

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: All Things Behold Changed Happened Heart Joy Light Little Mind Miracle Morning Pupil Singing Things Understanding

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

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: Cry Every Free Human Human Spirit Renaissance Spirit World

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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

Topics: Both Calls Creative Current Education Innovations Knowledge Light Need Purpose Some Spirited Substance

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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

Topics: Am Beginning Built Child Education Elaborate Every Idiot Kind Me Must Seem Special Suspect Systems Taught Think Up Who I Am

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

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: Achieved Insignificant Most Painful People See Seldom Steps Success Success Is Which

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I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: About Am Certain Child Deal Enter Gateway Great Great Deal Knowledge Love Mind More Obedience Think Thought Through Too Which Yes I Think I Am

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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: Children Far Guidance Instruction More Require Sympathy Than

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: April 14th, 1866

Died: October 20th, 1936

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