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Horace Mann Quotes

«Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge»
«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.»
«We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital»
«Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: addition, additions
«Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.»
«Observation - activity of both eyes and ears»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: observation
«A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: attaining, heights
«It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: energies, high energy, martyr
«Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.»
«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.»

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