Horace Mann Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

• A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

  Horace Mann

  Love, Children, Growing Up

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

• When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Knowledge, Garden

  Horace Mann (2008). “Slavery”, p.149, Applewood Books

• When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

  Horace Mann

  Education, Mother, Children

• After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

  Horace Mann

  Children, School, Two

  Horace Mann (1868). “Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).”, p.365

• A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Book, Mean

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

• When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Grief, Heart

  "Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann" edited by Mary Mann, (p. 116), 1872.

• Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Appreciate, Ignorant

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

• In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

  Horace Mann

  Running, Children, Race

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.222

• Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Children, Practice

  Horace Mann (1840). “Lecture on education”, p.58

• Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Fables, Alphabet

• Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Growing Up, Law

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.117

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