Horace Mann Quotes

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

lessons must be learned anew by each succeeding generation, and that generation is fortunate indeed which learns from other than its own bitter experience.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks it own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

You want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.