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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

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About Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.
At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind. Soon after graduation at age 20, she became a teacher to Keller.