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Horace Mann was born on May 4th 1796 in Massachusetts.He was born to a poor farming family. Which impacted his approach to education. He was the first American who advocated public education. He believed that education should be free, nonsectarian and well-trained.
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In 1837, the state of Massachusetts created it's board of education in which Mann was secretary in.
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In 1838 Mann created a biweekly journal named Common School Journal. It was for teachers and how they should lectured, but it was also for anyone wanted to read it.
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Mann developed main principles of education and it's troubles. Some of them include, that fact that education should be paid for, that education should be provided in schools, and that the education given should be given my professional teachers.
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Mann would spent month touring to places like Salem and other statewide systems where he pleaded for a statewide system of tuition-free education.
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He explored new ideas in school design and the teaching of reading by words rather than by alphabet letters.
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While Mann remembered the small library he had known while growing up. He believed that every child should have that advantage, so he set up a library expansion program.
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"The Means and Objects of Common School Education" was a speech given by Horace Mann to convince the whole state that the common school system was desirable and that it worth the increase on tax revenue.
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Mann died on Aug. 2, 1859. Ever since Mann was a child he was ill and 2 weeks after telling the graduating class to "be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity", he passed away.
