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.

Quote by Horace Mann

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

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

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...

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;...

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

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...

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

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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...

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

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

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...

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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;...

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...

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

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...

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may...

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may...

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to...

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to...

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...

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...