Top Ten Best Horace Mann Quotes
Horace Mann was an education reformer & abolitionist.The Top Ten
1 A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.
2 Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne.To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
3 If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
4 Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
5 Doing nothing for others is..undoing of ourselves.We must purposely be kind & generous,or we miss..best part of existence..heart which goes out of itself gets large & full..great secret of..inner life.We do ourselves..most good doing something for others.
6 It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
7 Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
8 Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
9 Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. As childhood advances to manhood, the transition from bad manners to bad morals is almost imperceptible... From the prevalent state of the mind,actions proceed, as water rises from a fountain.
10 I affirm,in words as true and literal as any that belong to geometry, that the man who withholds knowledge from a child not only works diabolical miracles for the destruction of good,but for the creation of evil also.
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