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.
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.
Deeds survive the doers.
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.