Horace Mann and the Common School
Horace Mann was a Massachusetts state senator during a time when many changes were taking place due to urbanization, industrialization and immigration. One change he saw was the division of society between the educated wealthy and the working lower class. Mann saw this division as a reason for the moral decay of society and the hatred between the two classes. The fact that the wealthy abandoned the common schools for private schools led to the demise of the education for the lower class. Mann saw education as the cure for the moral decay of society and the hatred between the two classes, so he set out to transform the common school system into the best schools for everyone which we strive for today but come …show more content…
(p.92). He saw education as the cure or equalizer, which allowed the lower class to obtain their own property. Mann’s assertion is that when this happens there will be less moral decay and hatred in society. Mann wrote that “for the existence of a wealthy people and a wealthy nation intelligence is the grand condition” (p. 94). A nation of republicans is also depended upon education according to Mann. A people who is educated in their government is more likely to keep that government healthy and …show more content…
What I see is the separation between those communities that are wealthy and those that are poor. When we compare our schools in wealthy neighborhoods compared to poorer ones we see the difference in the amount of qualified teachers, computers, books and other technologies. The difference between these schools I believe cause the prejudice and the hatred between the classes today which, Mann was trying to eliminate through the common school system. The diversity of our schools today also warrant a different way of teaching than the one size fits all ideas we have
Horace Mann was a Massachusetts state senator during a time when many changes were taking place due to urbanization, industrialization and immigration. One change he saw was the division of society between the educated wealthy and the working lower class. Mann saw this division as a reason for the moral decay of society and the hatred between the two classes. The fact that the wealthy abandoned the common schools for private schools led to the demise of the education for the lower class. Mann saw education as the cure for the moral decay of society and the hatred between the two classes, so he set out to transform the common school system into the best schools for everyone which we strive for today but come …show more content…
(p.92). He saw education as the cure or equalizer, which allowed the lower class to obtain their own property. Mann’s assertion is that when this happens there will be less moral decay and hatred in society. Mann wrote that “for the existence of a wealthy people and a wealthy nation intelligence is the grand condition” (p. 94). A nation of republicans is also depended upon education according to Mann. A people who is educated in their government is more likely to keep that government healthy and …show more content…
What I see is the separation between those communities that are wealthy and those that are poor. When we compare our schools in wealthy neighborhoods compared to poorer ones we see the difference in the amount of qualified teachers, computers, books and other technologies. The difference between these schools I believe cause the prejudice and the hatred between the classes today which, Mann was trying to eliminate through the common school system. The diversity of our schools today also warrant a different way of teaching than the one size fits all ideas we have