223 Quotes by Horace Mann

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

A house without books is like room without windows

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.