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When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
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Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
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Emulation
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Schools
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They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
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Bodies are cleansed by water the mind is purified by truth.
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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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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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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
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It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.
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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.
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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
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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 alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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