03UndatedIgnorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.Horace Mann / quote ↗
04UndatedEducation...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.Horace Mann / quote ↗
06UndatedA 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 he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.Horace Mann / quote ↗
07UndatedLet us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happenHorace Mann / quote ↗
09UndatedCharacter is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.Horace Mann / quote ↗
10UndatedFalse conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.Horace Mann / quote ↗
12UndatedHe who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.Horace Mann / quote ↗
13UndatedWe 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.Horace Mann / quote ↗
15UndatedThe object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.Horace Mann / quote ↗
16UndatedA teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.Horace Mann / quote ↗
17UndatedVirtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.Horace Mann / quote ↗
19UndatedThe teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.Horace Mann / quote ↗
21UndatedWhen a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.Horace Mann / quote ↗
22UndatedScientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.Horace Mann / quote ↗
23UndatedIf any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.Horace Mann / quote ↗
24UndatedEducation then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.Horace Mann / quote ↗
