Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young. Horace Mann More Quotes by Horace Mann More Quotes From Horace Mann He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead. Horace Mann welcome law ideas When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. Horace Mann spurs education school Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. Horace Mann command rights attention The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good. Horace Mann prevention punishment evil After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death. Horace Mann two children school Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. Horace Mann records biographies excellence You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. Horace Mann cost praise may Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. Horace Mann alphabet fables children There is nothing so costly as ignorance. Horace Mann ignorance I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. Horace Mann phrenology philosophy looks Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. Horace Mann common-sense genius common We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. Horace Mann majority vote insane If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. Horace Mann evil men reality 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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. Horace Mann growing-up love children Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms. Horace Mann apples effort law But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge. Horace Mann ignorant ignorance men Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. Horace Mann expenses tongue Observation - activity of both eyes and ears. Horace Mann observation eye ears We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause. Horace Mann sacred causes parent False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. Horace Mann impulse conclusion blind
