Quotes by Anne Sullivan Macy

Anne Sullivan Macy

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Family

Motivational

Success

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

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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less “showily.” Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself… Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

Children

Real

Teaching

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Arise

Difficulty

Doubtful

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

Jobs

Teacher

Thinking

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

Children

Real

Thinking

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.

Children

Educational

Mistake

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

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No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

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Quotes by Anne Sullivan Macy

Anne Sullivan Macy

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

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

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

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.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

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