Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
Topics: Failure, Achieving
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
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.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
Topics: Obedience
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
Topics: Parents, Parenting
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 Macy
Topics: Education
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