“If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.”
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. more
“Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.”
“What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.”
“Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.”
“What a man does not understand, he does not possess.”