Horace Mann was a Whig political leader born on May 4, 1796 in Franklin Massachusetts. Horace Mann was raised in poverty, and was educated in an elementary school that was diminishing into rubble. Mann was self educated in the Franklin library until he attended Brown University. Mann studied law, politics, and social reform. Mann lived a very successful life and improve the lives of many other with The Common School Movement. Mann was known as the father of the Common School Movement. In 1819 Mann graduated from Brown University and by 1827 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Horace Mann will also be elected to a seat at the Massachusetts Senate (1833), appointed Secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education (1837),
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Once Mann was appointed as the Secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education he used his political sharp-wittedness to mobilize support for the Common School and Normal Schools for teachers. Mann philosophy on education states " (1) citizens cannot maintain both ignorance and freedom; (2) this education should be paid for, controlled and maintained by the public, (3) this education should be provided in schools that embrace children from varying background; (4) this education must be nonsectarian; (5) this education must be taught using tenets of a free society; and (6) this education must be provided by well-trained, professional teachers" (biography.com, 2017). Mann believed that education was the great social equalizer between the rich and poor societies . The poor would earn value working skills to reach a higher economic ladder. Therefore, the wealth would be able to hire productive, respectable, hard working law abiding citizens. But Mann also wanted to provide greater access to equality in the schools education system. Mann believe that school would give everyone whether rich or poor the opportunity for power, wealth, and a successful life. Mann ideal of equality may have been moral, honest, and true but his dream of equality fail to prevail in the school education system. Because education have so many pre-existing things
Once Mann was appointed as the Secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education he used his political sharp-wittedness to mobilize support for the Common School and Normal Schools for teachers. Mann philosophy on education states " (1) citizens cannot maintain both ignorance and freedom; (2) this education should be paid for, controlled and maintained by the public, (3) this education should be provided in schools that embrace children from varying background; (4) this education must be nonsectarian; (5) this education must be taught using tenets of a free society; and (6) this education must be provided by well-trained, professional teachers" (biography.com, 2017). Mann believed that education was the great social equalizer between the rich and poor societies . The poor would earn value working skills to reach a higher economic ladder. Therefore, the wealth would be able to hire productive, respectable, hard working law abiding citizens. But Mann also wanted to provide greater access to equality in the schools education system. Mann believe that school would give everyone whether rich or poor the opportunity for power, wealth, and a successful life. Mann ideal of equality may have been moral, honest, and true but his dream of equality fail to prevail in the school education system. Because education have so many pre-existing things