Horace Mann Quotes

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Some people still think knowledge is power.

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.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

the cultivation and encouragement of the mechanic and of the elegant arts, the advancement of literature, and the progress of the sciences, ornamental and profound.

The very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men is knowledge.

That knowledge is power – that education is the citadel of liberty – that national glory and prosperity consist in the cultivation of the sciences, in the elevation of the liberal arts, in the extension of the powers of productive industry, are now considered as admitted truths and acknowledged axioms

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

Throughout history, rich nations have gotten to the future first. Their companies can afford to equip their tinkerers and visionaries with the most advanced materials, instruments and knowledge.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

In medicine, or in science, you go down a path and it turns out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we don’t have to go down that path again. In the press, they call it failure. And so people are unwilling to innovate, unwilling to take risks in government …

Ideas are what power our economy.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas.

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

Education brightens a darkened world.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.