Ms. Sullivan was as exemplary teacher, guide and mentor. She understood Helen’s fears, loneliness and frustration that she felt in her tiny, isolated world of silence. She was always very supportive and encoura-ging to Helen. This transformed Helen and helped her to deal with the problems she had.She taught Helen manual alphabets which helped her to communicate with people. She opened a world of nature and beauty for her. She taught every minute thing to Helen and made her think deep. She chose means and methods to teach Helen by taking her needs into consideration. She also made Helen experience and admire nature and taught her abstract ideas using innovative teaching methods. She was hardworking and an embodiment of patience. She had strength of character and a positive approach. Helen never felt that she was being taught. Infact Ms. Sullivan’s teaching methods unfolded possibilities. Her nurturing and care transformed a lost and lovely child into a mature, selfless and compassionate adult who later worked for the blind, deaf and unfortunate people. First of all, Anne read every bit of published material available to her about the education of handicapped students Knowledge of pedagogy was the first step to effective practice. In addition to this, Anne had the “advantage” of personal experience, as she herself had wrestled with severe vision impairment as a result of trachoma. She knew the challenges faced by a child in a similar situation.

Miss Anne Sullivan can rightly be called Anne\’s guide, mentor and teacher. She brought about a sweeping change in Helen\’s life and made her feel that there was an immeasurably contrast between her two lives – before and after the arrival of Miss Sullivan. She made her transcend her physical barriers. She taught her to communicate by spellings the words on her hands with her fingers. Her angelic touch, meticulous planning, deep commitment worked wonders for Helen. She started understanding the world in a better way and developed an optimistic approach towards life. Learning was made playful by the instructional and innovative ideas of Miss Sullivan. All the subjects whether it was History or Geography or Zoology or Botany were made easier by Anne Sullivan\’s teaching in play – way manner. Helen never felt that she was being educated. Rather she believed that she was a little mass of possibilities which were unfolded and developed. Miss Helen felt that before her education, she was like a ship without compass or sounding line and had no way of knowing how near the harbor was but Anne Sullivan\’s advent in her life took away all the bitterness from her life and brought a fresh breeze of joy and love in the life of Helen. Miss Sullivan had a peculiar sympathy with her pleasures and desires. She quickly went over uninteresting details and never nagged Helen with question to see if she remembered the day before yesterdays lesson. She introduced the dry technicalities of science little by little and made every subject so real that Helen could not help remembering what she taught.