Quotes by Horace Mann

The following are quotes from Horace Mann:

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

Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

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

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

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.

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