Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. Horace Mann More Quotes by Horace Mann More Quotes From Horace Mann Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. Horace Mann teachingthank-youteacher Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates. Horace Mann ignorantappreciatechildren The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man. Horace Mann weedmenhands Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice. Horace Mann perseverancesacrificeself 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. Horace Mann errorsdevelopmenttruth You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. Horace Mann maytimeinspirational 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. Horace Mann honestymoneyintegrity Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion. Horace Mann principlesmindscience 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. Horace Mann educationsciencemean Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. Horace Mann truthairscience Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar. Horace Mann takenreligiousgod When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children? Horace Mann mothereducationchildren In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat. Horace Mann racerunningchildren As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated. Horace Mann appleseducatededucation 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. Horace Mann burningchildhoodknowledge Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator. Horace Mann civilizationtwoschool Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. Horace Mann readingsuccessinspirational If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. Horace Mann dozenexpress-yourselfuse Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young. Horace Mann sagereformyoung Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann pridefeardeath
