Horace Mann

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the read more

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet read more

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in 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.

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.