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Horace Mann   /hˈɔrəs mæn/   Listen
Horace Mann

noun
1.
United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).  Synonym: Mann.






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"Horace Mann" Quotes from Famous Books



... fish, and not that you caught three black bass and one perch. Right there is where you can form habits that will shine out in your face as you grow to the full dignity of manhood. You see I lay special stress on habit. The Duke of Wellington said that habit was ten times nature. Horace Mann said ...
— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... Horace Walpole writes from London to Sir Horace Mann at Florence:—"I have lately been lent a volume of poems composed and printed at Florence, in which another of our exheroines, Mrs. Piozzi, has a considerable share; her associates three of the English bards who assisted in the little garland which Ramsay the painter sent me. The present is ...
— Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) • Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi



Words linked to "Horace Mann" :   pedagog, educator, pedagogue



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