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Horace Mann
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„Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.“
„Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.“
„Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.“
„Lost — Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.“
„If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.“
„Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.“
„Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.“
„Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.“
„It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.“
„A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.“
„Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.“
„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.“
„God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.“
„Physics is the Science of Matter; Metaphysics the Science of Mind — the Science of Being, apart from accidents and properties — Ontology.“
„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.“
„When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one’s own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.“
„A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.“
„So much, then, my friends, is done, in the common and established course of nature, for the welfare of our children. Nature supplies a perennial force, unexhausted, inexhaustible, re-appearing whenever and wherever the parental relation exists. We, then, who are engaged in the sacred cause of education, are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause; and, just as soon as we can make them see the true relation in which they and their children stand to this cause, they will become advocates for its advancement, more ardent and devoted than ourselves.“
„Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.“
„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.“
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