| Horace Mann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| May 4, 1796 - August 2, 1859 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Horace Mann was born in 1796 into a highly Calvinistic environment. He was educated at Brown University and served on the Massachusetts State Legislature from 1827-1833. During his time in the legislature, he helped to enact laws for reforming society, limiting the sale lottery tickets and alcohol, establishing hospitals for the insane and creating the Massachesetts State Board of Education. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Father of the Common School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Horace Mann is often called the father of the common school because he was one of the first to believe that Americans of all backgrounds should be able to attend public schools supported by tax dollars. He thought that poor, middle class, and wealthy children should all recieve a "common education", which he said was an experience needed to build a nation. He had faith that education was the proper tool needed to eliminate discrimination. To summarize the life of Horace Mann, he was on a constant search for a means of social salvation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Famous Quotes of Horace Mann: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"A child is like a lump of clay that can be shaped for the future." | "Laws fail because they deal with adults whose character was already shaped - the real hope is in molding the shape." "When will society, likea mother take care of all her children?" "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."
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