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Category: Horace Mann

Horace Mann | truth

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.