Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
- Topic: Education
More Quotes from Horace Mann
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.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
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What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.
