Anne Sullivan Quotes

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.

Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

I want my readers to find their own way.

I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.

Kids do their own thing. We let them be real kids. You get an immediate response - if they don't like the music, they don't do it.

I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing.