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

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"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

Compassion

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

- Horace Mann

Compassion

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

- Horace Mann

Vision

"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

Time Management

"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

Determination

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"Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

Knowledge

"I didnt get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."

- Wade Boggs

Knowledge

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

Knowledge

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

Knowledge

"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

Knowledge