Psychology Quotes by Horace Mann

9 Psychology quotes by Horace Mann

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Horace Mann’s nine brief statements echo his reformist spirit, turning educational insight into broader reflections on how we think and learn.

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Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

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Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

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Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

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NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought…

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Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the…

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Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which…

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Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to…

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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on…

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Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of…

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When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

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The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also…

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The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is…

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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…

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On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

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So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always…

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We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it…

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In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education…

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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor…

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Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

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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…

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Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths…

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Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the…

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