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Horace Mann ( 4 May 1796 - 2 August 1859 ) was an American education reformer and abolitionist Sourced Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Address at Antioch College (1859) Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment...


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Name: Horace Mann
Birth Date: May 4, 1796
Death Date: August 2, 1859
Place of Birth: Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: humanitarian, reformer

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Biography of Horace Mann
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Horace Mann (4 May 1796-2 August 1859), prolific writer and persuasive spokesman for educational reform, is known today as the father of the American public school system. He grew up in a hard-working farm family in Franklin, Massachusetts. A small...
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The American educational reformer and humanitarian Horace Mann (1796-1859) was enormously influential in promoting and refining public education in Massachusetts and throughout the nation in the 19th century. Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Mass., on...
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Though not the first to propose a common education for all, Horace Mann transformed the idea into action. As the first secretary of the Board of Higher Education in Massachusetts, president of the state senate, U.S. congressman on the eve of the Civil...


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Horace Mann Born May 4, 1796 Franklin, Massachusetts Died August 2, 1859 Yellow Springs, Ohio Educator, abolitionist, legislator, and social reformer Horace Mann was born at a time when the public school system was in its infancy. Children like himself...
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Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, since their wives were...


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School Administrator
The Dreams of Horace Mann.
09/01/1997: 686 words, approx. 2 pages
Last year I wrote about Horace Mann as the opening to our "Contrarians" issue (May 1996) of The School Administrator. I thought I would return to Horace to kick off this inaugural column of "Executive Perspective." I intend to use this column to...
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The Boston Globe
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04/24/2006: 428 words, approx. 1 pages
THE ANNUAL assault on Massachusetts charter schools is underway with a proposed amendment to the House budget that could jeopardize funding for students attending the 49 autonomous schools. Having failed in an earlier attempt to impose a moratorium on charter schools, opponents now seek...
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The New York Observer
Horace Mann Satirized\'d1 A Feeble Tract, Alas, and Stale
6/4/2006: 919 words, approx. 3 pages
Many New York City private-school kids went to the same second-tier Ivy, the University of Pennsylvania, as I did. They were a strange breed; as early as freshman year, even the unattractive and the boring carried themselves with a breezy sense of self-entitlement and contempt...
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The New York Observer
Horace Mann Satirized- A Feeble Tract, Alas, and Stale
6/4/2006: 918 words, approx. 3 pages
Many New York City private-school kids went to the same second-tier Ivy, the University of Pennsylvania, as I did. They were a strange breed; as early as freshman year, even the unattractive and the boring carried themselves with a breezy sense of self-entitlement and contempt...
 


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