Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Horace Mann

Quote by Horace Mann

Work

Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College

This book compiles a series of sermons delivered at Antioch College, showcasing the speaker's religious and intellectual viewpoints. The sermons likely cover a range of topics pertinent to the time and the college's ethos. more

Author

Horace Mann
Horace Mann

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

You May Also Like

“Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.”

“There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.”

“The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying.”