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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin first propose the idea of an Academy in 1751, initiating this shift to this more multi faceted, practical curriculum. Franklin argued that all subject should be taught in the English language to all students. Moreover he advocated for a practical nature of learning to be included, skills that would assist the young person later in life and his daily life and work.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States was an early proponent of public education as a means of ensuring a well informed citizenry able to maintain a democracy. Thomas Jefferson argued that only with an educated populace could a free government and foundation of democracy be secure. In order to participate in the self governing democracy, its citizens had to be educated. When Jefferson stated that an informed popular safeguard of democracy, his nose should and rested on people having access to school, Being able to learn to read, write, and, through reading and thinking, judged the worth of political ideas. Education, then, had an explicit political purpose in terms of defining and in acting the democracy.
Horace Mann
Horace Mann fought for establishing a universal system of public education and was known as the father of American education. 1796 -1859 man envisioned a universal public education available to all children in the country. He believed passionately that education would bring about equality, and it through a public school system available to all, the ideals of the constitution could be realized. Through a system of public schools, all, Rich and poor, would be offered a primarily sec Terrian education to in large their view of themselves and others, and so, to build a harmonious society. Through the gate way of education equality for all would be available in poverty would cease. Furthermore, man was convinced that School should teach a common set of believes and moral values so as to promote harmony among different groups.
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