Horace Mann: Champion of Public Schools

Horace Mann: Champion of Public Schools
Author: Robert Bingham Downs
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1974
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:
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Biography of one of America's great educators and an early and effective champion of public schools. In addition to serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann served in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1827 to 1833) and the Massachusetts Senate (1834 to 1837). Acknowledged by educational historians as the Father of the Common School movement, Mann argued that universal public education was the most efficient way to create a productive, disciplined citizenry.

Horace Mann and the Public School in the United States

Horace Mann and the Public School in the United States
Author: Gabriel Compayri
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780898759181
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"Without any question," Americans say, "the noblest figure in the history of education in our country is that of Horace Mann." It is his biography which is offered here. Gabriel Compayre is the author of History of Pedagogy, Montaigne and the Education of the Judgment, Peter Abelard and the Rise of the Modern Universities, and Jean Jacques Rousseau and Education from Nature.