Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
Topics: Parents
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
—Anne Sullivan Macy
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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