Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
Interpretation
Teaching is a dedicated profession driven by a genuine care for students.
Horace Mann underscores the essence of teaching as a selfless act of caring for the future generation. He highlights the dedication and effort required in this profession, emphasizing that effective teaching is rooted in patience and a commitment to the well-being of young people.
In practice
During a graduation speech to honor the educators who shaped the students' lives.
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.
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, theyβve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.
Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.
You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.
One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.
Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.
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