Horace Mann

"When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart."

- Horace Mann

"Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care."

- Horace Mann

"Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field."

- Horace Mann

"Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."

- Horace Mann

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."

- Horace Mann

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

- Horace Mann

"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

- Horace Mann

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

- Horace Mann

"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."

- Horace Mann