Quote #42
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
More from Horace Mann
- Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
- Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
- Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
- We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt …
- When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin t…
- Observation-activity of both eyes and ears.
- You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who a right to know it all, but let all you tell be truth.