Horace Mann Quotes

Education came to be one of the great preoccupations, enlightenment was viewed as the greatest single opportunity to escape .... Parents made untold sacrifice to secure learning for their children that they had been denied.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

We want a corps of educated instructors – we want gratuitous instruction in our academies and colleges. The di minorum of learning ought to be elevated in the scale of public estimation and intellectual endowment.

I knew without doubt that I would try and continue my education as I was skating.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Study! Study ! Study! Get an education.

I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

The Library is the heart of the University.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Education is our passport to the future.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

The problem with education is school.

Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.