United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)

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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
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.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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