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Horace Mann

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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.


— Horace Mann


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


— Horace Mann


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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.


— Horace Mann


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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.


— Horace Mann


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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.


— Horace Mann


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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.


— Horace Mann


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


— Horace Mann


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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.


— Horace Mann


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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


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Massachusetts legislature
Mann was elected to the legislature in 1827 and in that body was active in the interests of education public charities and laws for the suppression of intemperance and lotteries. In 1848 after serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education since its creation he was elected to the US House of Representatives. After their enactment he was appointed one of the editors of the work and prepared its marginal notes and its.

As a politician he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. Mann has been credited by educational historians as the "Father of the Common School Movement". He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834 to 1837.

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