3 December 2020 Horace Mann A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
