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Horace Mann born March 4, 1796. He was born into a poor life in franklin, Massachusetts.
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Mann attend college at Brown University. This a great college. He start when he was 20.
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Mann graduated college and then went to law school. He also work for a layer a taught at Brown for 1 year.
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Mann work as a represent at the state of Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was there until 1833. During his time in the house he made a hospital for mentally ill people. The United States never had a hospital like this.
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Mann Moved to Boston to work in Massachusetts senate. He served on the senate from 1835 to 1837. In 1836 he was the president of the senate.
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Horace Mann believed in public school education. He thought the public should pay for the school. He also thought the public should control the school and take care of it.
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Mann help lead a reform movement to put the states back in change of education. In 1837 a state’s board of education was set up. This board collected and publish info on the schools. Mann became the secretary of this board. He served in this position for 11 years.
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Mann became a member of the United States Congress. He replaces former president John Quincy Adams. While in Congress he showed that he was against slavery.
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Mann became the president of Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio. He took this job after losing his run for governor of Massachusetts. It was a new college that believe in equal education despite gender, religion or race.
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Mann died in Yellow Spring, Ohio. He was still serving as president of Antioch College. Two month before he died, he gave a speech to the graduates saying, “t beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
