Horace Mann“The Father of Education”

• 6 weeks of school• May 4, 1796-August 2, 1859• Brown University• Married in 1830• Also, married in 1843

• Mann practiced law from 1827 to 1833 before winning a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

• In 1837, Massachusetts created their first Board of Education and Mann was the secretary.

• He started a biweekly journal, Common School Journal, for teachers and lectured on education who would listen.

6 Principles of Education• 1. Citizens cannot maintain both ignorance and freedom.• 2. This education should be paid for, controlled, and

maintained by the public.• 3. This education should be provided in schools that embrace

children from varying backgrounds.• 4. This education must be nonsectarian.• 5. This education must be taught using tenets of a free society.• 6. This education must be provided by well-trained,

professional teachers.

• Mann’s words angered groups across the social and political spectrum-from clergymen to educators to politicians- buy his ideas prevailed and still do today. (Biography)

• No one did more than he to establish in the minds of the American people the conception that education should be universal, non-sectarian, free and that its aims should be social efficiency, civic virtue, and character, rather than mere learning or the advancement of sectarian ends. (Wikipedia)

• Started the Common School Movement• Crucial for developing teacher training schools • Helped in the development of the first Normal Schools in

Massachusetts.

•“I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting

words: be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for

humanity.”

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• Horace Mann. (2014). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 08:21, Sep 24, 2014, from http://www.biography.com/people/horace-mann-9397522.

• Horace Mann. (2014, September 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 00:41, September 25, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horace_Mann&oldid=625980139