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Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Helen Keller
Children, Rights, Brain
Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

Helen Keller
Children, Knowing, Delight
Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Helen Keller
Children, Simple, Sea
Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.185, Book Tree

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

Helen Keller
Children, Speech, Chance
Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

Helen Keller
Children, Distance, Fall
Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.81, Modern Library

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.

Helen Keller
Children, Heart, Sunshine
Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

Helen Keller
Education, Children, Disappointment
Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

Helen Keller
Children, Guarantees, Taught

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

Helen Keller
Beautiful, Children, Men
Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

Helen Keller
Children, Real, Thinking
"The Story of My Life".

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