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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
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The pulpit only teaches to be honest the market-place trains to overreaching and fraud and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
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You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
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In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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