Horace Mann Quotes about Children

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There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Horace Mann

Education, Teacher, Children

Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Horace Mann

Education, Mother, Children

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Horace Mann

Love, Children, Growing Up

"The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

Horace Mann

Children, Appreciate, Ignorant

Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

Horace Mann

Children, Knowledge, Garden

Horace Mann (2008). “Slavery”, p.149, Applewood Books

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

Horace Mann

Children, School, Two

Horace Mann (1868). “Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).”, p.365

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

Horace Mann

Children, Growing Up, Law

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.117

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

Horace Mann

Children, Grief, Heart

"Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann" edited by Mary Mann, (p. 116), 1872.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Horace Mann

Education, Children, Practice

Horace Mann (1840). “Lecture on education”, p.58

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Horace Mann

Children, Book, Mean

"The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

Horace Mann

Running, Children, Race

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.222