"As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated."

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Source: Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.81

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Horace Mann was an American educational reformer known for advocating public education and establishing the first state board of education in the U.S.

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