Author: Horace Mann

Quotes

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

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

- Horace Mann

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

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

- Horace Mann

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

- Horace Mann

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

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

- Horace Mann

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.

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

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

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

- Horace Mann

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

- Horace Mann

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

- Horace Mann

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

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

- Horace Mann

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