A house without books is like a room without windows.
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Horace Mann was an American education reformer and politician known as the "Father of the Common School Movement." He dedicated his career to advocating for free public education for all children. Mann played a significant role in shaping the education system in the United States during the 19th century.
1796–1859·lived 63 years
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.Baccalaureate address, Antioch College, 1859
Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.'Lost, Two Golden Hours' in Common School Journal November 1844
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