"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."
-Anne Sullivan
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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.“
-Anne Sullivan
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"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about."
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"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."
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"My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!"
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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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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
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