"Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise." (Horace Mann, "A Few Thoughts for a Young Man", Monthly Literary Miscellany, 1851)
"Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion." (Horace Mann, "Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann", 1872)
"Education is an organic necessity of a human being." (Horace Mann, "Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann", 1872)
"If ever there can be a cause worthy to be upheld by all toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of education." (Horace Mann, "Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann", 1872)
"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil to learn is hammering on cold iron." (Horace Mann, "Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann", 1872)
“A human being is not, in any proper sense, a human being till he is educated.” (Horace Mann)
"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." (Horace Mann)
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