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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Annie Sullivan

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

Annie Sullivan

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.

Annie Sullivan

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!

Annie 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.

Annie Sullivan

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 depends on a real knowledge of things.

Annie Sullivan

Annie Sullivan

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Born: April 14, 1866

Died: October 20, 1936 (aged 70)

Bio: Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy, better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.

Known for:

The Story of My Life (1902)
Pillow People: A Bedtime Story

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