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"Men are cast-iron; but children are wax."
* "We, then, who are engaged in the sacred cause of education, are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause; and, just as soon as we can make them see the true relation in which they and their children stand to this cause, they will become advocates for its advancement, more ardent and devoted than ourselves." <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EgcNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA210|last1=Mann|first1=Horace|title=Lectures and Annual Reports on Education|date=1867}}</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>
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