When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begi… - Horace Mann
" "When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
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Horace Mann (4 May 1796 – 2 August 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist
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How strong that idea of improvement in the human mind, which is the companion, if it be not the condition of genius!— that ideality, I mean, which always runs ahead of actuality. Achievement is only the eminence whence we survey something better to be achieved. Ideality is only the avant-courier of the mind, and where that, in a healthy and normal state, goes, I hold it to be a prophecy that realization can follow.
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