If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. - Horace Mann
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
- Horace Mann
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
A house without books is like a room without windows. - Horace Mann
A house without books is like a room without windows.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. - Horace Mann
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. - Horace Mann
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves. - Horace Mann
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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… - Horace Mann
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…
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause. - Horace Mann
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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