Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.
From Anne Sullivan
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.
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
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.
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 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.
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