Quote #3

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

More from Horace Mann

  1. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
  2. 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 know…
  3. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
  4. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
  5. The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
  6. 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.
  7. Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
  8. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.

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