Horace Mann Quotes

    If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
    Horace Mann
    Truth
    Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.
    Horace Mann
    Education
    God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.
    Horace Mann
    Religion
    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.
    Horace Mann
    Education
    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
    Time
    Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. As childhood advances to manhood, the transition from bad manners to bad morals is almost imperceptible. Vulgar and obscene forms of speech keep vulgar and obscene objects before the mind, engender impure images in the imagination, and make unlawful desires prurient. From the prevalent state of the mind, actions proceed, as water rises from a fountain.
    Horace Mann
    Ethics
    Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
    Horace Mann
    Inspirational
    Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
    Horace Mann
    Knowledge
    A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.
    Horace Mann
    Education

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