Horace Mann - Education Quotes

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

Horace Mann
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. I do not here mean that it so elevates the moral nature as to make men disdain and abhor the oppression of their fellow-men. This idea pertains to another of its attributes. But I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility towards the rich: it prevents being poor.

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

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There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

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I hold Education to be an organic necessity of a human being.

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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

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

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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.

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There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

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

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