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School is the cheapest police.

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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
Cheapest
Police
School

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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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We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
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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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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
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Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
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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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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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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it but let all you tell be truth.
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Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
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Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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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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In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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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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Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
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