Horace Mann

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

"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

"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."

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

"If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable."

"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."