Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. – Horace Mann
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. – Horace Mann
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. – Horace Mann
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. – Horace Mann
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881