Horace Mann Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Horace Mann
Horace Mann Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
Love
that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home
sometimes burns at unholy altars.
that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home
sometimes burns at unholy altars.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.
Republics, one after another ... have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people ...
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
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 his domain of universal knowledge.
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.