{"id":1114,"date":"2024-11-19T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/?page_id=1114"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:44:12","slug":"horace-mann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/enlightenment-18th-century\/key-players-18th-century\/horace-mann\/","title":{"rendered":"Horace Mann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

1796 – 1859<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\"Portrait<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horace Mann is best known as an educator and political reformer. When serving as the first US Secretary of Education, he promoted the common school movement. Mann also founded a school for the deaf in 1869 in Alston, Massachusetts. His school for the deaf promoted oralism, as opposed to manual signing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horace Mann was born in May 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts, a farming community. He went to Brown University and then to Law School. In 1823 he was admitted to the bar, and opened a law office in Massachusetts. He was elected to the state senate in 1934, and served for two years. Around 1835, Mann became acquainted with George Combe, a phrenologist, and subscribed to the notion that behavior was related to the anatomical and physiological aspects of the brain and its faculties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1837. Mann became secretary of the newly formed State Board of Education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1853. Mann accepted the post of president of Antioch College, a nondenominational school in Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writings about Horace Mann<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cremin, Lawrence A. (Ed) (1957) The republic and the school: Horace Mann on the education of free men. <\/em>NY: Teachers College, Columbia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culver, Raymond B., (1929\/1969) Horace Mann and religion in the Massachusetts Public Schools. <\/em>NY: Arno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downs, Robert Bingham (1974) Horace Mann: Champion of public schools<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edwards, R. A. R. (2001). \u201cSpeech has extraordinary humanizing power\u201d: Horace Mann and the problem of nineteenth century American deaf education. In Paul Longmore & Lauri Umansky (Eds.) The new disability history: American perspectives<\/em> (pp. 58-82). NY: New York University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hinsdale, B. A. (1937). Horace Mann and the common school revival in the United States. NY: Scribner\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lasch, Christopher (1995). The revolt of the elites and the betrayal of democracy<\/em>. (see essay on \u201cThe common schools: Horace Mann and the assault on imagination. NY: W. W. Norton & Co.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mann, Mary Peabody & Mann, George Combe (Eds.) (1865\/1891). Life and works of Horace Mann (5 vols). Boston: Lee and Shepard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mc Cluskey Neil Gerald (1958) Public Schools and Moral Education: The Influence of Horace Mann, William Torrey Harris, and John Dewey<\/em>. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Messerli, Johnathan (1972). Horace Mann: A Biography<\/em>. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Straker, Robert Lincoln (1955). The unseen harvest: Horace Mann and Antioch College<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tharp Louise Hall, (1954). Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, E. I. F. (1937) Horace Mann: Educational statesman<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collected Mann Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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