Horace Mann Education Quotations

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

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

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.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

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.

Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

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.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .