Quotes by Horace Mann

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. (Horace Mann)

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. (Horace Mann)

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

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

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. (Horace Mann)

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. (Horace Mann)

Do not think of knocking out another persons brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. (Horace Mann)

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