Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan
Johanna "Anne" Mansfield Sullivan Macy, better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, she contracted trachoma, a highly contagious eye disease, which left her blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind where upon graduation she became a teacher to Keller when she was 20...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth14 April 1866
CountryUnited States of America
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 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.
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.
You do need more than just a little dab at it, because it's everyday life for a lot of these kids, ... Not all of them, but a lot.
We are putting on six early childhood classrooms. And that's what's going to be an appendage to the Northwest side of the building.
This is a real successful brand with great name recognition and household penetration.
It gives the first responders that extra information they might need to better protect the patients.
I think that some people look at the school and take it as their school, and other people look at it as not their school, like it belongs to the town, ... But it varies. I don't want to say 'in all instances.' We've had valedictorians, salutatorians that are native students, so not everybody pushes it away.
My role is to get native students through the school system as successfully as possible, ... Whatever that means, anything and everything.
Again, it's an elective component for parents and students, but the support is there in the event that someone would like to take advantage of it,
The Friends need to get their act together and raise some money and the Chamber needs to do more than just give lip service, ... The dollars and cents of the facility is a monkey on the schools' back.