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Horace Mann Biography

Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education. A central theme of his life was that "it is the law of our nature to desire happiness. This law is not local, but universal; not temporary, but eternal. It is not a law to be proved by exceptions, for it knows no exception." He served in the Massachusetts State legislature (1827–1837). In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives (1848–1853). From September 1852 to his death, he served as President of Antioch College.

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Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

Greater, Neglected, Requisite, Teaching, Wells

Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Devoted, Hands, Heart, Hour, Insanity, Rescue

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Conceive, Consummate, Genius, May, Patient

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.

Bold, Clear Head, Heart, Produced, Volcanoes, Wine

Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

Burns, Fire, Home, Love, Unholy

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Entering, Ignorance, World

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.

Age, Attendance, Children, Noble, School, Two

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Brave, Knowledge, Profligate, Use

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

Evil, Fearful, Fire, Night, Temptation, Tension

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

Character, Jesus, Known, Real

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

Intellect, Men, Morality, Morals, Ten

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Men, Thinking, Blood, Water, Improvable

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

Arsenals, Country, Garrisons, Ignorance, Mean, Security

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.

Easier, Example, Grounds, Highways, Travel, Untrodden

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. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.

Education, Mother, Mean, Welfare, Sacrifice, Selfishness

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Follows, God, Science, True Religion, Truth Is, Variance

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

Men, Occupation, Want, Bane, Perhaps

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

Common, Common Sense, Genius, Sense

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Carved, Ignorance, Ignorant, Known, Men, Things

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Blind, Conclusion, Impulse, Worse

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