Horace Mann Quotes & Quotations

Horace Mann Quotes

» If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

» It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

» Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

» Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

» Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

» Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

» Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

» Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

» A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

» Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

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