Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 498 |
| AUTHOR: | Horace Mann (1796–1859) |
| 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: | Mann served in Congress 1848–1853. |
| SUBJECTS: | Education |