Horace Mann was an American education reformer and abolitionist. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives .
He was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, since their wives were sisters.
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind”
Horace Mann
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.”
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.”
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both”
“Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.”
“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.”
“A house without books is like room without windows”
“Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.”
“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge”