Horace Mann Quotes on Education
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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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.
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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.
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.
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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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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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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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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 at the end of the year.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.