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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann
Inspirational, Education, School
Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.112

School is the cheapest police.

Horace Mann
School, Police

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

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator.

Horace Mann
School, Civilization, Two

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Horace Mann
Education, School, Spurs

Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

Horace Mann
Education, School, Character
Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

Horace Mann
Girl, Art, School
"Printing and Paper Making". The Common School Journal Vol. V, No. 3, February 1, 1843.

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

Horace Mann
School, Character, Night
Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.15

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