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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.
About Horace Mann
Horace Mann (4 May 1796 – 2 August 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist
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Shorter versions of this quote
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.
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.
A HOUSE WITHOUT BOOKS IS LIKE A ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS
Additional quotes by Horace Mann
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.