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
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or… — 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
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
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered… — 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
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
