A house without books is like a room without windows. No ma… - Horace Mann

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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann (4 May 1796 – 2 August 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist

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A house without books is like a room without windows.

A HOUSE WITHOUT BOOKS IS LIKE A ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS

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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men — the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

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