https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97 en-us 2021-05-03 04:25:07 UTC 2026-05-06 09:07:36 UTC hello@padlet.com hernandezernesto199 https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483787436 He was born in Franklin Massachusetts in 1796 and died in 1859 in Yellow Springs, Ohio.  
In 1837 he became the first secretary of Education in Massachusetts. He advocated for "common schools," institutions open to everyone who wished to be educated. 
Mann hoped that by bringing all children of all classes together, they could have a common learning experience]]> 2021-05-03 04:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483787436 hernandezernesto199 https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483788340 He attended Brown University in Providence Rhode Island and the Litchfield Law School 
He served in the state House of Representatives, from 1827 to 1833. In 1833 he moved to Boston, and from 1835 to 1837 he served in the Massachusetts Senate, of which he was president in 1836.

]]> 2021-05-03 04:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483788340 hernandezernesto199 https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483789889 He believed that Education is the key to transform society. He said, " A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

He worked tirelessly to ensure his ideas and the belief that political stability and social harmony depended on education became a reality given birth to universal public education in the United States

]]> 2021-05-03 04:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483789889 hernandezernesto199 https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483794487 1) A republic cannot long remain ignorant and free, hence the necessity of universal popular education.

(2) Such education must be paid for, controlled, and sustained by an interested public.

(3) Such education is best provided in schools embracing children of all religious, social, and ethnic backgrounds.

(4) Such education, while profoundly moral in character, must be free of sectarian religious influence

(5) Such education must be permeated throughout by the spirit, methods, and dicipline of a free society, which preclude harsh pedagogy  in the classroom.

(6) Such education can be provided only by well-trained, professional teachers.]]> 2021-05-03 04:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483794487 hernandezernesto199 https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483797563 He fought against slavery, advocating for the freedom and education of African Americans.
“After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.”]]> 2021-05-03 04:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483797563 hernandezernesto199 https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483798753 2021-05-03 04:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483798753 hernandezernesto199 https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483803357 - Marserlli, J. (1972). PBS online: Only a Teacher: SCHOOLHOUSE PIONEERS. Retrieved May 03, 2021, from https://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html#:~:text=When%20he%20was%20elected%20to,education%20funded%20by%20local%20taxes.

- Cremin, Lawrence A.. "Horace Mann". Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Mann. Accessed 3 May 2021.

Carleton, D. (n.d.). Horace Mann. Retrieved May 03, 2021, from https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1283/horace-mann#:~:text=via%20Wikimedia%20Commons)-,Known%20as%20the%20%E2%80%9Cfather%20of%20American%20education%2C%E2%80%9D%20Horace%20Mann,curriculum%20that%20excluded%20sectarian%20instruction.]]> 2021-05-03 04:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483803357 hernandezernesto199 https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483817074 2021-05-03 04:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483817074 hernandezernesto199 https://padlet.com/hernandezernesto199/apxwx9h09jqpen97/wish/1483819935 Horace Mann changed the course of our history, his ideas and beliefs about public education have shaped the United States into what we know today. For him, a public school system was pivotal to establish because this system would prepare the future leaders of this nation to advance it towards progress and prosperity for all Americans for generations to come. 

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