Horace Mann Quotes about Ignorance

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There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Horace Mann

Ignorance

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

Horace Mann

Country, Ignorance, Mean

Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.271

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Horace Mann

Ignorance, World, Entering

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.103

Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

Horace Mann

Ignorance, Broken, Silence

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.118

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Horace Mann

Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

Horace Mann (1867). “Life and Works of Horace Mann”, p.320

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

Horace Mann

Ignorance, Knowledge, Miracle

Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.69

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.

Horace Mann

Education, Mother, Ignorance

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.7