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- Born on May 4, 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts and grew up very poor. He died on August 2, 1859.
- Horace Mann was an American education reformer and politician.
- He served in Massachusetts as a member of the House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833.
- Mann also served in the MA Senate from 1835 to 1837.
-. Horace was the first great American advocate of public education. He believed in a democratic society, where education would be free, universal, and nonsectarian
-  Mann is credited today as the "Father of the Common School Movement"

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- The Common School Movement ensured that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes.
- Horace believed that public schooling was the center of good citizenship.
- As time passed, Horace knew that public schools quality would have to be raised, and with that teaching was the key to improvement.

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- Horace also developed his very influential, although at the time controversial, main principles regarding public education and it's troubles.

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- After he was elected Secretary of the newly-created Massachusetts Board of Education, he used his position to enact a major educational reform, "The Common School Movement".

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- As you can see just looking around, Horace's idea of public education worked.
- We attend school for free, but the public pays in local taxes.
- We also have different ethnicities in our own school.
- Horace Mann got married twice
- Horace was the president of Antioch College
- He had three children: Horace Jr., George Combe, and Benjamin Pickman.

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- In 1837, Horace Mann became secretary in the board of education of Massachusetts
- He had no interest in education, but he was being offered a paid office position.
- Once he took the job, he dropped all of his other works and focused solely on his education career.