Horace Mann

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

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

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children read more

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.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it read more

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of
universal knowledge.

Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.

Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of
reflection ought to know something about read more

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of
reflection ought to know something about the history of the art
of printing.