Horace Mann

Horace Mann was an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education.

He served in the Massachusetts State legislature (1827–1837). In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives (1848–1853).

Date of birth:
4th May, 1796
Date of death:
2nd August, 1859
"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
― Horace Mann
Topic(s): Education
"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."
― Horace Mann
Topic(s): Power
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
― Horace Mann
Topic(s): Education
"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
― Horace Mann
Topic(s): Death
"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
― Horace Mann
Topic(s): Education
"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
― Horace Mann
Topic(s): Teacher
"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
Topic(s): Education
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
― Horace Mann
Topic(s): Teacher

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