Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his chil… - Horace Mann

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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. 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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

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About Horace Mann

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

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