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Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

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
Organic
Necessity
Education
Science
Human
Humans

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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
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I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
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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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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 object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
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One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
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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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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
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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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