Anne Sullivan Quotes

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

I'm always very keen to learn a skill or a language for my films.

Usage is the best language teacher.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

You want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there.