Horace Mann Quotes

Whilst a man may escape from the burden of an unlucky name, or from the contempt attaching to a city of no repute, by changing the one or quitting the other, he can never remedy the neglect of early education. The foundation, therefore, of this last must be laid in the first years of life, the disposition molded whilst it is susceptible and the mind trained whilst it is retentive.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

There is always something new to learn. There is always something new that I am learning and I wanna share it with the world.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.