When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
Horace MannOf all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
Horace MannIn our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.
Horace Mann