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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
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Manners
Easily
Moral
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Morals

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A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.
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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
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Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
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The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
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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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Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.
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We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
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Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
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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.
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There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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