Horace Mann Quotes
Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
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.
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.
A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.
Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.
Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.
On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen
Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
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.
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.
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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.
