Anne Sullivan Macy quotes

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
Anne Sullivan Macy
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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.
Anne Sullivan Macy
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
Anne Sullivan Macy
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
Anne Sullivan Macy
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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.
Anne Sullivan Macy
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
Anne Sullivan Macy
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne Sullivan Macy
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
Anne Sullivan Macy
Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.
Anne Sullivan Macy
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
Anne Sullivan Macy
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
Anne Sullivan Macy
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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!
Anne Sullivan Macy
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.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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.
Anne Sullivan Macy