Anne Sullivan's Death

The teacher Anne Sullivan died at the age of 70. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Teacher who famously broke through to Helen Keller and taught her how to read and write.

She married Harvard instructor John Albert Macy in May of 1905; the couple separated in 1914.

Quotes

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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools – things remote from the student’s experience and need.

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

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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.

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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.

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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.