A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
- Anne Sullivan
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
- Anne Sullivan
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We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
- Anne Sullivan
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If my parents didn’t push me and didn’t support education, I probably wouldn’t be here today, … Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it’s easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don’t.
- Anne Sullivan
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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
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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.
- Anne Sullivan
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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
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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
- Anne Sullivan
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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
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