"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." ― Anne Sullivan Topic(s): Sympathy More From Anne Sullivan "My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!" "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." "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." More In Sympathy "Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior."― Henry Ossawa Tanner "Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."― Irving Babbitt