Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Horace Mann
Born: May 4, 1796
Died: August 2, 1859 (aged 63)
Bio: Horace Mann was an American politician and educational reformer. A Whig devoted to promoting speedy modernization, he served in the Massachusetts State Legislature.
Known for:
- Life and works of Horace Mann
- Slavery: Letters and Speeches (1851)
- The Republic and the school
- On the Art of Teaching
- Lectures on Education (1845)
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