Horace Mann frasi celebri
“Dove c'è qualcosa che cresce, uno che forma val più di mille che riformano.”
Origine: Citato in John Dewey, Scuola e società, traduzione di Ernesto Codignola e Lamberto Borghi, La Nuova Italia Editrice, Firenze, 1969.
Horace Mann: Frasi in inglese
James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Misattributed
As quoted in Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1881)
“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.”
As quoted in Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School (1880) by John Bradley Peaslee, p. 104
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards
The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 19 (2 October 1843)
As quoted in Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 74
“Evil and good are God's right hand and left.”
Philip James Bailey, in Festus (1839), misattribution of this to Mann seems to have only started in recent years, on the internet.
Misattributed
As quoted in The Quotable Teacher (2006) by Randy Howe, p. 67
“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.”
As quoted in The New Era, Vol. III, No.. 10 (October 1873), p. 368
Lecture 1
Lectures on Education (1855)
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
Lecture 1
Lectures on Education (1855)
“Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.”
As quoted in Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 73
The Common School Journal, Vol. III, No. 17 (1 September 1841)
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
Origine: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 213
“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
“Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.”
James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Misattributed
Origine: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 7
Peter Marshall, US Senate prayer (10 March 1948)
Misattributed
“The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.”
Lecture 7
Lectures on Education (1855)
As quoted in Gems of Thought : Being a Collection of More Than a Thousand Choice Selections, Or Aphorisms, from Nearly Four Hundred and Fifty Different Authors, and on One Hundred and Forty Different Subjects (1888) edited by Charles Northend
“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.”
Edmund Burke, as quoted in Lacon in Council (1865) by John Frederick Boyes, p. 124
Misattributed
“Observation — activity of both eyes and ears.”
As quoted in Every Other Sunday Vol. 23 (1907) by The Unitarian Sunday-School Society, p. 19
As quoted in The Albany Law Journal Vol. XLIX (January - June 1894), p. 47; also paraphrased as: "Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms."
“Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.”
Origine: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 214
Published as "A Beautiful Thought … we clip from an exchange paper" in Universalist Union (16 March 1844) this is often quoted as an advertisement originally written by Mann, attributed to him in Getting on in the World (1874) by William Mathews, p. 268; and most publications since that date, and sometimes titled "Lost, Two Golden Hours".
Variants:
Lost,
Two golden hours:
Each with a set of
Sixty diamond minutes!
No reward
Is offered, for they are .
Lost for ever!
Published as "Loss of Time" in The Church of England Magazine (28 June 1856) without any crediting of authorship.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset...
The most commonly quoted variant simply begins with a comma rather than a dash.
