223 Quotes by Horace Mann

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

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

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that whic

The Borough Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and the last we cannot break it.

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

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Wealth which breeds idleness ... is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet.