Education Vs Horace Mann

In his Twelfth Report, Horace Mann discusses reasons that public education is imperative in the success of a peaceful, prominent society. Mann maintains that education is a way to produce successful and resourceful citizens. Without education, people can only do so much and can only go so far; they are raw materials that need to be developed into something more. Mann lists all of the important and necessary institutions in society that require educated people in order to flourish. Society, in turn, depends on those institutions to succeed. His main effort was to give all members of society the same tools for success, thus giving society a chance to thrive.

Furthermore, in 1846, Horace Mann, a Whig politician and education reformist asserted that a superior and universal law had dictated every human being, regardless of race or gender, deserved access to education and that it was the obligation of government to provide this (Doc 3). Horace Mann, regarded as the most devoted education reformist and a respected Whig, could or did not pass any national legislation to spread universal education. Additionally, during the Antebellum era, there were 2 whig presidents, Harrison and Taylor, and Whigs dominated both congressional houses during their presidencies; so education reform should have passed easily. In reality, Mann’s narrative of universal education for the purposes of creating “a culture of virtuous principles” was not fulfilled during the Antebellum era. Apparently, many reformists believed more in promoting a virtuous image of the U.S. than in pursuing laws to cement reforms. In 1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson lectured a Library association of Mechanic’s apprentices that “What is a man born for but to be a Reformer… a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature...” (Doc 2). Emerson, a 2nd Great Awakening lecturer emphasizes the goodness that results from reforms, a minor distinction from democratic ideals. Emerson does not mention equality or freedom as suitable motivations for reformists, rather, he emphasized reforming because it makes the reformer appear virtuous. As a prominent speaker, Emerson convinces that the primary concern of the apprentices in his audience is their self image, not spreading suffrage, liberty or equality

Horace Mann has always loved to learn. He would visit the Library to caught up on reading and homework from his district school. He loved learning so much that he would write letters in school, on his family’s farm, and at the Library. Horace thought that the teachers should be paid for teaching students and that any person could go to school. He thought that the teachers should be professional and not just adults who read and teach you how to write. In school today teachers are everywhere. They make sure that we are doing the right thing for ourselves. What if Horace Mann would have never became an Educational Reformer? Schools would be chaos without

Horace Mann and Jane Addams both lived in the 19th century America and were university educated reformers. However, they came of age in very different times, with Horace Mann living during the early years of American democracy and Addams the massive industrial expansion and immigration era of the late 19th century (Gutek, 2011). These differences created distinct educational needs that required very different responses. In the case of Mann the need was for quality instruction for all children and not just the children of the elite. Horace Mann used the skills he developed as a Massachusetts politician and his post as the first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education to advocate for the creation of Common Schools. These schools

As Horace Mann worked in Massachusetts State Board Education, he thought if poor people receive the education as same as rich people, the society will be “balance”, which is the “revenge of poverty against the rich.”(110) His idea was just a hypothesis at that time because he actually didn’t know how the society would change in next 200 years. For example, nowadays, top 1% of US population control 35% of US wealth, and the 10% controls 73.2%, which means another 90% of US citizens only make 26.8%. Even though in America, all children are able to go to school because of program “No child left behind” in 2001, the wealth of the top 1% hasn’t dropped down for 13 years. Education gives people knowledge, but it doesn’t help them get richer, so education can’t “balance the society”. Students from different classes will go to different schools and receive different education, so how the society can be equalized if the education is not “balance”. According to the book Public School Administration by Ellwood Cubberley, dean of Stanford University, “Our schools are… factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned… And it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specification laid down,” (148) which mean education is turning children into the “pupils,” so the society is able to

Three beliefs that were held by the majority of people as Horace Mann began his efforts was that they shouldn't have to pay taxes for public education to be inserted. Another was shouldnt need a education to be wasted if there destine to work at a factory where you need zero education for. Also that if they want to have an education they should pay for it himself then have the taxpayers pay for them.

Horace Mann was the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. In that position he created a public school system which he based off of Prussia military schools. In this new system he pushed for free mandatory education, better schoolhouses, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum. He believed that education should be something that every child gets in their life, something that we still hold to today. He changed the whole way that the world looked at schooling, rather than it being something that only the rich could afford, it was

Many people complain about the high tuition of college, and it is actually one of the main reasons that people choose not to attend college. Responding to this issue, both Cottom and Guinier think that higher education is economically unfair to students from different family backgrounds, specifically, to those students whose families do not have much money. In “Why Free College is Necessary”, Cottom harbors the view that even college is free, only the top class of students will benefit; when Guinier provides some countering points in “Ivy League’s meritocracy lie”, they share agreement on that higher education is absolutely unfair even tuition is free because of the cost of preparation and the condition of the students. Firstly, both of them agree that the preparation for college is hard.

Without education, a society would have not have the proper tools needed to produce literature, write documents, or carry out worldly affairs. These shortcomings would lead to bigger problems as other countries advanced in greater educational feats. In 1831, a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville published a book proclaiming America exceptional after observing the American lifestyle firsthand. De Tocqueville is justified in his claim, as the public school reform movement greatly benefited the American society as a whole. Horace Mann, a main educational reformer, can be credited for advocating the need of a uniformed public school system. His persistence and the modifications made during the public school reform movement display America’s

this education must be non-sectarian (non-religious) , 5. This education must be taught using the tenets of a free society, and 6. this education must be taught by well trained professional teachers.”-Horace Mann

In Horace Mann’s proposal to the Massachusetts Board of Education, he argues that, “education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the condition of men” (159). In making this comment, Mann argues that we cannot completely abolish America’s high schools. We can, however, choose not to force education upon the unwilling and damage the education of those who are willing. The next divide in education is the social divide. This can be seen in ”The First Day” a short story by Edward P. Jones in which a small girl is forced to attend a school with a inferior reputation because her family lives on the wrong side of town.

An American educational reformer who fought to promote a universal system of public education was Horce Mann. Mann was convinced that schools should teach the same type of beliefs and moral values to foster peace among different groups. Mann believed that only social quality would come from public school education. He devoted himself to improving education that distinguished those who could afford to attend school, and those who could

Horace Mann was the first to advocate for public education, because of his upbringing he strongly believed that education “is the great equalizer of the conditions of men” by Horace Mann. He was the founder of Pedagogy, as well as the “Common School Movement”, and founded the “Common School Journal” as well. He led a campaign offering universal education: by which he meant that all children regardless of race, religion, and socioeconomic background should receive an education. He also stated that this education be taught by trained professionals (teachers) and that all education be free of religious influence, and all to be founded by the community which will benefit from its children’s education in the future.

Horace Mann’s contributions included a practical method of adapting the education system with the industrial revolution by incorporating “standardized curriculum, segregated classrooms by age, ban any religious education, open preschools for the very young, and instill the curriculum with political vision” (Clevenger) and relinquishing it to the federal government.

Since Horace Mann’s campaign for common school and free public education, the ideas and procedures for education in the United States have been debated. Traditionally, from