"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."
-Anne Sullivan Macy
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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.“
-Anne Sullivan Macy
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"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."
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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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"Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy."
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"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
-Terry Wogan
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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