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

Horace Mann

Truth, Greatness

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

Horace Mann

Education, Men, Rich

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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.

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Education, Teacher, Children

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

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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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A house without books is like a room without windows.

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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.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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.

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Heart, Helping Others, Self

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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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It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

Horace Mann

Wise, Learning, Knowledge

"Lectures on Education".

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There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Horace Mann

Ignorance

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We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

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Parent, Sacred, Causes

Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.184

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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.

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Inspiring, Forgiveness, Compassion

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

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

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Thank You, Teacher, Teaching

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

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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.

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Education, Apples, Educated

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.81

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If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

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Heart, Sacrifice, Toil

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

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

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Motivational, Positive, Happiness

"Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

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Knowledge, Humans, Human Power

Horace Mann (1840). “Lecture on education”, p.58

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