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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.

— Anne Sullivan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

— Horace

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

— Maria Montessori

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

— Pat Benatar

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

— Elbert Hubbard

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

— Bryant H. McGill

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

— Erik Erikson

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

— George Muller

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

— Diane Abbott

✗Opposing Perspectives

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.

— Ellen Key

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

— Nadine Gordimer