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American Politician

Horace Mann, an American politician born on May 4, 1796 and died on August 2, 1859, played a significant role in the reform of American education and is known as the father of public education in the United States.

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Famous Horace Mann Quotes

“Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.”

Truth Grows Roots Errors Surface Seeming

Author:Horace Mann

“No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.”

Self Errors Rejoice Matched

Book:Dedication of Antioch College, and Inaugural Address of Its President, Hon. Horace Mann: With Other Proceedings

Source: Dedication of Antioch College, and Inaugural Address of Its President, Hon. Horace Mann: With Other Proceedings

“NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.”

Mind Action Young Lying Subjects Thousand Models Errors Active Archetype Dormant Power Of The Mind Young Minds

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.”

Doors Errors Supplies

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.”

Truth Pleasure Crosses Errors Following Deeper Celebrate Triumph Joining Mingling

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.”

Truth Mankind Development Labor Errors Series Comprehension Thorough Ascending

Book:Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

“So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

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Book:Horace Mann at Antioch

Source: Horace Mann at Antioch

About the Author

Born: May 4, 1796
Died: August 2, 1859
Known for: American Politician
Quotes: 181

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ThoughtsRelated source material

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...Related source material

Common School JournalRelated source material

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th AnniversaryRelated source material

Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch CollegeRelated source material

Lectures on EducationRelated source material

Lecture on educationRelated source material

Lectures on Various SubjectsRelated source material

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 EducationRelated source material

Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).Related source material

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