"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
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Teacher
More From 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."
- "We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
- "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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- "Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."― Baltasar Gracian
- "Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy."― Glenn Beck
- "I’m embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little."― Phil McGraw