Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Interpretation
Education is essential for a stable and safe society.
Horace Mann suggests that education is crucial for maintaining political stability and safety within a society. He metaphorically compares education to an ark that protects against chaos and disorder, indicating that without it, people may face turmoil and destruction.
In practice
During a graduation speech emphasizing the importance of education.
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
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.
Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.
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