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* "The State is a nourishing mother, as wise as she is beneficent, and happily as few ungrateful children." <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hTkdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA50|title=Annual Report of the Board of Education, Volume 19|date=1856}}</ref>

* "The State is a nourishing mother, as wise as she is beneficent, and happily as few ungrateful children." <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hTkdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA50|title=Annual Report of the Board of Education, Volume 19|date=1856}}</ref>

* "Having found the present generation composed of materials almost unmalleable, I am about transferring my efforts to the next. Men are cast-iron; but children are wax. Strength expended upon the latter may be effectual, which would make no impression upon the former."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=qZRDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA83 Life of Horace Mann], By Mary Tyler Peabody Mann</ref>

* "Having found the present generation composed of materials almost unmalleable, I am about transferring my efforts to the next. Men are cast-iron; but children are wax. Strength expended upon the latter may be effectual, which would make no impression upon the former."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=qZRDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA83 Life of Horace Mann], By Mary Tyler Peabody Mann</ref>

*“Moral education is a primal necessity of social existence. The grand result in practical morals, can never be attained without religion and no community will ever be religious without religious education. Had the Board required me to exclude either the Bible or religious instruction from the schools, I certainly should have given them the earliest opportunity to appoint my successor.”<ref>https://comparet.christogenea.org/sermons/americas-christian-beginnings</ref>

*"Moral education is a primal necessity of social existence. The grand result in practical morals, can never be attained without religion and no community will ever be religious without religious education. Had the Board required me to exclude either the Bible or religious instruction from the schools, I certainly should have given them the earliest opportunity to appoint my successor."<ref>https://comparet.christogenea.org/sermons/americas-christian-beginnings</ref>

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