"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." ― Anne Sullivan Topic(s): Sympathy More From Anne Sullivan "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." "It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things." "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." More In Sympathy "The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."― Irving Babbitt "I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."― Albert Szent-Gyorgyi "Criticism in the universities, I’ll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It’s Stalinism without Stalin."― Harold Bloom