American - Educator | April 14, 1866 - October 20, 1936
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
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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.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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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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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
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It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
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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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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
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We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
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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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A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
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