It has been thought by many educators and metaphysicians, that children learn as much before the age of seven years as ever afterwards.
Horace Mann: “It has been thought by many educators and metaphysicians, that children learn as much before the age of seven years as…”
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Mann references the significant impact of early childhood learning on a person's development.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.





