Horace Mann Quotes

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• Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up…
• If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
• It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
• The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence.…
• False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
• 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 grounds…
• Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
• It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
• Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
• Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur…
• There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and…
• The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
• You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
• But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of…
• Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become…
• Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be…
• A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,…
• If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
• The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to…

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