Horace Mann

A house without books is like a room without windows. ↗

— Horace Mann

#house #simile #windows #books

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. ↗

— Horace Mann

#nothing #others #ourselves #undoing

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ↗

— Horace Mann

#die #humanity #some #until #victory

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. ↗

— Horace Mann

#growth #intelligence #knowledge #opinion #intelligence

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ↗

— Horace Mann

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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. ↗

— Horace Mann

#determination #give #happen #let us #make

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

— Horace Mann

#attempting #cold #cold iron #desire #hammering

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

— Horace Mann

#deluge #education #only #our #outside

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. ↗

— Horace Mann

#diamond #each #forever #golden #gone

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

#conditions #devices #education #equalizer #great