Horace Mann
Horace Mann
Horace Mannwas an American politician and educational reformer. A Whig devoted to promoting speedy modernization, he served in the Massachusetts State legislature. In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education since its creation, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Historian Ellwood P. Cubberley asserts:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 May 1796
CityFranklin, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.