Horace Mann

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Horace Mann

• The Father of Education
• By Rhiannon Matson
• 3/5/03
• Education 310

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History

• Basic Background
• Education
• Career

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Manns Years in Office

• Years in office.
• What he supported
• Abolition
• Temperance
• Hospitals for the mentally ill
• Education

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Horace Mann Education

• Why teaching?
• Other reforms are remedial education is
  preventative.
• Philosophy on Education

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Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of
Education

• The Position
• Henceforth as long as I hold this office, I
  dedicate myself to the supremest welfare of
  mankind on earth.
• How did he do it?
• A) Campaigned for education.

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Continued

• B) Established schools for teacher training.
• The first Normal School was established in
  Lexington, Massachusetts in 1839.
• C) Established school district libraries.
• Free Libraries!
• D) Won financial banking for public education.
• Doubled teachers wages
• Compensated school committees
• 50 new secondary schools
• Doubled State aid for education
• Improved textbooks educational equipment
• E) Extended his influence beyond Massachusetts.

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His Final Years

• Congressional seat
• President of Antioch college
• Be ashamed to die before you have won some
  battle for humanity.

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Sources

• Armstrong, David G., Henson, Kenneth T., Savage,
  Tom V. Teaching Today. Upper Saddle
  RiverPrentice-Hall, Inc.,1993
• Brown University. About Brown(History). 19 Feb.
  2003 lthttp//www.brownedu/webmaster/about/history/
  mann.shtmlgt.
• North Carolina State University. Education
  Department. 19 Feb. 2003 lthttp//www.cals.ncsu.edu
  /agexed/aee501/mann.htmlgt.
• Notre Dame University. Library Collection. 19
  Feb. 2003 lthttp//www.nd.edu/rbarger/www7/mann.ht
  mlgt.
• Unitarian Universalist Association. Dictionary of
  Unitarian Universalist Biography. 19 Feb. 2003
  lthttp//www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/horacemann.
  htmlgt.