Horace Mann
Horace Mann was a Massachusetts lawyer and social reformer whose advocacy of tax-supported "common schools" laid the groundwork for the American public school system. A Whig, Mann was a lawyer who served in… More »
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The Father of American Education"," Horace Mann, was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, in 1796. Mann's schooling consisted only of brief and erratic periods ...
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and Robert Bingham Downs, Horace Mann: Champion of Public Schools (1974). Among other biographical works are Louise Hall Tharp, Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody (1953) and Johnathan Messerli, Horace Mann: A Biography (1972).
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Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834-183...
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Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, ... and " Thoughts selected from the Writings of Horace Mann" (1869). His lectures on education were translated into French by Eugene de Guer, under the title of "De l'importance de l'education dans une republique," with a preface and biographical sketch by Edouard R.
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For further reading: Jonathan Messerli, Horace Mann: A Biography (1972); Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The National Experience (1980); Lawrence Cremin, ed., The Republic and the School: Horace Mann on the Education of Free Men (1957);
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LAUSD > Local G > Horace Mann Middle School Homepage > Horace Mann Biography ... Horace Mann was born to a very poor farming family in Massachusetts. As a man he was responsible for improving public education in Massachusetts and had an major impact on educational reform throughout America.
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He was member of Congress (1848-53), and president of Antioch College from 1853 until his death in 1859. Horace Mann was indefatigable in his efforts toward the suppression of slavery, the promotion of temperance, and in the cause of education.
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EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF HORACE MANN. Perhaps no one more deserves the title of father of American public school education than Horace Mann. This list contains many of his contributions to education and events in his life.
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