Horace Mann Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Inspire, Height

  "Words for Teachers to Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 2002.

• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

• 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.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Education, School

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.112

• 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.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Men, Balance

  Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669

• Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

  Horace Mann

  Education, People, Republic

• 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”

• Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Men, Rich

• Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Safety, Political

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.220

• Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Quality, Infinite

  Horace Mann (1840). “Lecture on education”, p.59

• Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Mean, Science

  Horace Mann (1957). “The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men”

• The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Spiritual, Character

  "Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, and Parts of Great Britain and Ireland: Being Part of the Seventh Annual Report of Horace Mann".

• Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Science, Humans

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.235

• Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

  Horace Mann

  Education, School, Character

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

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

  Horace Mann

  Education, Mother, Children

• If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Mother, Ignorance

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.7

• As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Apples, Educated

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.81

• Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Lines, Republican

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.271

• The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

  Horace Mann

  Education, People, Giving

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

• 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

• When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

  Horace Mann

  Education, School, Spurs

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