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Horace Mann was born. Born to a father who was a farmer who had very little money. He was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, in 1796.
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Massachusetts created the nation’s first board of education and Horace Mann was the named secretary for this.
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This was Mann's main principles that went towards public education and its troubles that it was having.
1. Citizens cannot maintain both ignorance and freedom
2. Education should be paid for, controlled, and maintained by the public
3. Education should be provided in schools that embrace children from varying backgrounds
4. Education must be nonsectarian
5. Education must be taught using tenets of a free society
6. Education must be provided by well-trained, professional teachers. -
As a member of the House of Representatives, he promoted an agenda of public education and "normal schools" to train teachers.
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Mann's influence on schooling soon spread past Massachusetts, as more states was taking his ideas on education and using them.
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He wrote these on the common school idea, increasing of teacher wages, establishment of free libraries, supervision of teaching, founding of normal schools for teachers, state funding of schools increased, 50 secondary schools built, edited the Common School Journal, and wrote lectures, books, essays, and articles.
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Horace Mann died from collapsing.
