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.
Interpretation
Withholding education from children is detrimental to their development and well-being.
Horace Mann emphasizes the critical importance of education for children, arguing that depriving them of this essential resource is akin to starving their souls. He distinguishes between mere frugality and true economy, suggesting that true economic prudence includes investing in the education and well-being of future generations, as it enriches both individuals and society as a whole.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a speech advocating for educational reform.
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.
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.
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.
If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.
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