I've always learned that Horasse Mann invented school.?

Question

but Didn't ancient Romans used to go to school?

If i'm Wrong what exactly did Horasse Mann do?

Answer 1

horace mann did not invent school. the anciet greeks, romans, chinese, indians, and arabs to mention a few, and excuse me if i left your ethnic group out, all went to school.  orace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican) from 1848 to 1853.

He was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, their wives being sisters.

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    * 1 Education and early career

          o 1.1 Education reform

    * 2 Leadership of Antioch College and last years

    * 3 Legacy

    * 4 Further reading

    * 5 Notes

    * 6 External links

[edit] Education and early career

Horace Mann was born on May 4, 1796,[1] in Franklin, Massachusetts. His childhood and youth were passed in poverty, and his health was impaired early by hard, manual labor.[citation needed] His only means for gratifying his eager desire for books was the small library founded in his native town by Benjamin Franklin and consisting principally of histories and treatises on theology.

He enrolled at Brown University at the age of 20 and graduated after three years[2] as valedictorian of his class in 1819. He then studied law for a short time at Wrentham, Massachusetts; was a tutor of Latin and Greek (1820-1822) and a librarian (1821-1823) at Brown University; studied during 1821-1823 at Litchfield Law School (the famous law school conducted by Judge Tapping Reeve in Litchfield, Connecticut); and in 1823, was admitted to the Norfolk, Massachusetts, bar. In 1830, Mann married Charlotte Messer, though she died only two years later on August 1, 1832. His grief over her death never fully subsided.[3]

For fourteen years, first at Dedham, Massachusetts, and after 1833 at Boston, he devoted himself, with great success, to his profession. While in Dedham, home of the nation's first "free" (tax-supported) public school, he served on the school committee.[4] Meanwhile he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833 and in the Massachusetts Senate from 1833 to 1837, for the last two years as Senate President.[4]

[edit] Education reform

It was not until he was appointed secretary (1837) of the newly created board of education of Massachusetts that he began the work which was soon to place him in the foremost rank of American educationists. He held this position, and worked with a remarkable intensity, holding teachers' conventions, delivering numerous lectures and addresses, carrying on an extensive correspondence, and introducing numerous reforms. He planned and inaugurated the Massachusetts normal school system in Lexington and Bridgewater, founded and edited The Common School Journal (1838), and began preparing a series of Annual Reports, which had a wide circulation and are still considered as being "among the best expositions, if, indeed, they are not the very best ones, of the practical benefits of a common school education both to the individual and to the state" (Hinsdale).

Mann's reforms included the establishment of a single school system throughout the state instead of separate local school districts.[5] He urged separate classrooms for students at different levels of learning, and discouraged learning by rote and flogging as punishment.[5] Most importantly, he worked effectively for more and better equipped school houses, longer school years (until 16 years old), higher pay for teachers, and a wider curriculum.

In 1852, he supported governor Edward Everett in the decision to adopt the Prussian education system in Massachusetts. Shortly after Everett and Mann collaborated to adopt the Prussian system, the Governor of New York set up the same method in twelve different New York schools on a trial basis.

The practical result of Mann's work was a revolution in the approach used in the common school system of Massachusetts, which in turn influenced the direction of other states. In carrying out his work, Mann met with bitter opposition by some Boston schoolmasters who strongly disapproved of his innovative pedagogical ideas [6], and by various religious sectarians, who contended against the exclusion of all sectarian instruction from the schools. He is often considered "the father of American public education".[7]

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Answer 2

Horace Mann

Answer 3

Horasse Mann was one of the first to suggest that education be mandatory for all children in the united states and be regulated by the government.  I forgot which state he was from, but it became the first state to require basic education.  The rest of the nation followed suit.

Answer 4

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/m...

Answer 5

Horace Mann created the tax-based public school system in America when he introduced it to the North. I'm not sure about the Romans. Maybe the key is that these schools were the 1st to be funded through taxes, and they were open to everyone. Even more, school was mandatory.

Answer 6

he helped the American public school system in the USA.  He didn't invent school, they had been around for a long time if only for the elite of society. what he did was make sure that everyone was able to be educated, well everyone in the USA other countries followed a little later.

Answer 7

HORACE didn't invent school. He helped the US system or something.

Get the names right.

Answer 8

Horace Mann was a leader in early American education. He was from Massachusetts. MA was very much under the influence of the Puritans which emphasized the necessity for education so that individuals might study and read the Bible for themselves. Much of what MA did would influence the rest of the US.