Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 185
Context: No matter how seemingly unconnected with human affairs or remote from human interests a newly-discovered truth may appear to be, time and genius will some day make it minister to human welfare. When Dr. Franklin was once sceptically asked what was the use of some recondite and far-off truth which had just been brought to light, "What," said he, "is the use of babies?"
Horace Mann: Humanity
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12th Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/horace_mann.htm (1848); published in Life and Works of Horace Mann Vol. III, (1868) edited by Mary Mann, p. 669
Context: 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. I do not here mean that it so elevates the moral nature as to make men disdain and abhor the oppression of their fellow-men. This idea pertains to another of its attributes. But I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility towards the rich: it prevents being poor.
“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.”
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850), p. 65
Context: He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
Lecture 1
Lectures on Education (1855)
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
As quoted in Words for Teachers to Live By (2002) by Mary Engelbreit
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 7
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
Address at Antioch College (1859)