The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann Read Quote
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. Horace Mann Read Quote
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. Horace Mann Read Quote
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann Read Quote
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. Horace Mann Read Quote
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time. Horace Mann Read Quote
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. Horace Mann Read Quote
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann Read Quote
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Horace Mann Read Quote
