“Until you have done something for humanity,” wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, “you should be ashamed to die.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
“Independent study, community service, adventures and experience, large doses of privacy and solitude, a thousand different apprenticeships — the one-day variety or… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“The industrialized mass nature of school goes back to the very beginning, to the common school and the normal school and the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
“Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
