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
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.
He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.