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Horace Mann Quotes: 7

A house without books is like a room without windows.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
Life and Works of Horace Mann Volume 3
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.