Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . . — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann Copy Share
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also… — Horace Mann Copy Share
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is… — Horace Mann Copy Share
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of… — Horace Mann Copy Share
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann Copy Share
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always… — Horace Mann Copy Share
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it… — Horace Mann Copy Share
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share
