Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Interpretation
Education serves as a powerful tool to level the playing field among individuals and society.
Horace Mann emphasizes the transformative power of education in society, arguing that it is the most effective means of promoting equality among people, regardless of their background. He suggests that education acts as a balancing force within the social system, enabling individuals to rise above their circumstances and fostering a more just and equitable society.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech at a graduation ceremony to inspire new graduates about the importance of their education.
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.
I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
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