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

Quote by Horace Mann

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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but...

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but...

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

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

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

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men...

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men...

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

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

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the...

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the...

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right...

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right...

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

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

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

A house without books is like room without windows.

A house without books is like room without windows.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men...

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men...

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires...

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires...

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death;...

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death;...

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and...

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and...

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world...

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world...

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.