Anne Sullivan

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

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

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

— Anne Sullivan

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

— Anne Sullivan

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind ….

— Anne Sullivan