"Had I the power, I would scatter libraries……" — Horace Mann

"Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field."

— Horace Mann

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108 Quotes by Horace Mann

Horace Mann has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds…

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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