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.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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.
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. 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.
A 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.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.