14 Horace Mann Quotes on Education

Horace Mann quotes on education

2. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.

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

11. 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.

12. A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

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

19. 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.

29. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

32. 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.

39. 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.

40. Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

42. Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.