John Horner

John Horner may refer to:

  • John S. Horner (1802–1883), American politician
  • John M. Horner, founder of Union City, California
  • John Horner (British politician) (1911–1997), British firefighter, trade unionist and politician
  • John Horner (police), American chief of police of Los Angeles in 1885
  • John R. Horner (born 1946), American paleontologist
  • John Horner, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    “Quintilian [educational writer in Rome about A.D. 100] hoped that teachers would be sensitive to individual differences of temperament and ability. . . . Beating, he thought, was usually unnecessary. A teacher who had made the effort to understand his pupil’s individual needs and character could probably dispense with it: “I will content myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimized, and that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them.””
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    “Little Jack Horner
    Sat in the corner,
    Eating a Christmas pie;
    He put in his thumb,
    And pulled out a plum,
    And said, What a good boy am I!”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Little Jack Horner (l. 1–6)