Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
498
AUTHOR:
Horace Mann (17961859)
QUOTATION:
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
ATTRIBUTION:
HORACE MANN, twelfth annual report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1848.Life and Works of Horace Mann, ed. Mrs. Mary Mann, vol. 3, p. 669 (1868).