Horace Mann

Title: Horace Mann
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Horace Mann

Horace Mann was the father of the American School System. Horace Mann’s had many reforms on education. He was born in 1796. Mann determined what the purpose of education should be based on his own experience and observation. Mann also had many ideas how education could be improved. Many of these ideas have been followed by schools today as well. Mann also had ideas on topics which one considers today to be controversial. The public …showed first 75 words of 684 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 684 total…schools became. Horace Mann worked throughout his life to improve the quality of education in America. In 1937, Mann accepted a job as the secretary of the state board of education in Massachusetts. This may seem simple, but he had to make many sacrifices. Mann had to do twice the work that he was doing in his former job, but for half the pay. This act showed that Mann wanted badly to help the education system

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