It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Death
Sullivan had been seriously visually impaired for almost all of her life but by 1935 Anne Sullivan was completely blind in both eyes. When Helen graduated from Perkins Anne followed her to New York City where they frequented the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf. However within a few years the marriage began to disintegrate.