Horace Mann Quotes

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

We have to learn everything we do.

What you earn depends on what you learn.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

Learn early, learn often.

...don't spoil my learning process!

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

To earn more, you must learn more.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.