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

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Believe, Years, Stories

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

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Education, Safety, Political

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.220

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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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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.

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Inspirational, Education, School

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.112

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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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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Horace Mann

Errors, Doors, Supplies

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.143

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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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There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Horace Mann

Ignorance

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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 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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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Horace Mann

Chinese, Speech, Action

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The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying.

Horace Mann

Men, Might, World

Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.70

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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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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.

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Example, Easier, Highways

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.70

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

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Soul, Energy, Martyr

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

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We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Horace Mann

Undoing

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

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