Horace Mann Quotes

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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.

Horace Mann

Education, Men, Balance

Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669

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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann

Life, Death, Badass

Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1838). “Annual Report, Together with the Report of the Secretary of the Board: (1837-1841)”

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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Horace Mann

Truth, Greatness

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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

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Thinking, Years, Brain

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.212

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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Horace Mann

Education, Inspire, Height

"Words for Teachers to Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 2002.

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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Horace Mann

Believe, Years, Stories

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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. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Horace Mann

Heart, Helping Others, Self

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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 starves their souls.

Horace Mann

Education, Teacher, Children

Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Horace Mann

Education, Safety, Political

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.220

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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

Horace Mann

Education, Men, Rich

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A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

Life, Happiness, Attitude

"The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Horace Mann

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Horace Mann

Leadership, Helping Others, Self Help

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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

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Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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

Horace Mann

Truth, Water, Mind

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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Horace Mann

Moral, Mature, Manners

Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.80

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Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

Horace Mann

Jesus, Book, Cities

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.192

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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Horace Mann

Compassion, Helping Others, Help And Support

"Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Horace Mann

Thank You, Teacher, Teaching

"The Quotable Teacher" by Randy Howe, (p. 67), 2006.

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Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

Horace Mann

Country, Ignorance, Mean

Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.271

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Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

Horace Mann

Book, Wheat Fields, Land

"Horace Mann at Antioch".

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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 into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

Horace Mann

Education, Mean, Science

Horace Mann (1957). “The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men”

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Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

Horace Mann

Education, People, Republic

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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

Inspiring, Forgiveness, Compassion

Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.297

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Horace Mann

Soul, Energy, Martyr

Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.213

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Born: May 4, 1796
Died: August 2, 1859
Occupation: American Politician
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