Horace Mann
Horace Mann
Horace Mannwas an American politician and educational reformer. A Whig devoted to promoting speedy modernization, he served in the Massachusetts State legislature. In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education since its creation, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Historian Ellwood P. Cubberley asserts:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 May 1796
CityFranklin, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I think it's beginning to be very successful; it was always viewed as a long-term project,
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.