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Horace Mann, who led the reform movement of Public Education argued that the common school was a place of equality, and he believed that political stability and social harmony depended on education. He started this reform movement when he was chosen to be Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education is 1837. He felt that it was important to have an educated citizenry.
To help make his decisions,  he had a few principles: Schools should be a free society, they should not set particular religious beliefs, schools should have well-trained professional teachers and a few more. These principles were the main outlines he followed as the Secretary.
He fought continuously to improve public education for all children to make a better society

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Going to School

Could you imagine never going to school? Well, for many years in the United States, there was no such thing as public school. Kids typically learned to read and write from their parents. If you came from a wealthy family, you might have a tutor or attend a private academy. One of the first people to propose a public-school system was Horace Mann. His ideas on education led Massachusetts to create the first public education system in the country.

Humble Beginnings

Horace Mann was just the kind of person who would be interested in public education because he himself grew up with few opportunities to attend schooling. Born in 1796, he was the son of a poor farmer in Franklin, Massachusetts. As a boy, he could rarely attend school because his father expected his help on their farm. Instead, he would often go to the town library and read books. A local minister also helped him study languages, like Latin, that were important if one wanted to go to college. At the age of 20, he was accepted to Brown University. Due to his hard work, he graduated first in his class just three years later!

Secretary of the Board of Education

After graduation, Horace earned his law degree and then successfully ran for a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He went on to the Massachusetts State Senate. Throughout his political career, he supported using taxes for improvements in the state. In 1837, Massachusetts created the first state board of public education in the United States and appointed Horace its secretary (meaning its leader). As such, he tirelessly fought to improve the quality of education in the state, as well as working to make education available to all children.

Mann's Six Principles

Horace used six main principles to guide his decisions and actions:

1. The general public should not remain uneducated.

2. The public should pay for and maintain an education system.

3. Schools should provide educations to children of all backgrounds.

4. Schools should not reflect a particular set of religious beliefs.

5. Schools should reflect the ideals of a free society.

6. Schools should have well-trained, professional teachers.

These six principles became the framework for everything he did as secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Can you see these principles in our schools today?

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Could you imagine never going to school? Well, for many years in the United States, there was no such thing as public school. Kids typically learned to read and write from their parents. If you came from a wealthy family, you might have a tutor or attend a private academy.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the leader of womens rights reform movement. She was outraged by the inequalities that women faced. Stanton made a Declaration of Sentiments, which was used from the Declaration of Independence, hoping for a brighter future for women. On the Declaration of Sentiments, she gave reasons for the unfair ways that they were being treated.
A women´s rights convention was planned and it was called the Seneca Falls convention placed in New York, and the convention demanded equality for women at work, school,church, and voting. There were many debates at the convention over women´s rights. At the end, the vote was finally won in 1920