The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
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