U.S. public schools great father Horace Mann

Horace Mann (Horace Mann ,1786-1859) was the 19th century, the United States distinguished educator. He was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, near the village. In 1819, Mann graduated from Brown University, staying in school for any Latin, Greek teachers. Began in 1823 working as a solicitor. 1827 ~ 1837, she served as the state members of Parliament, the Senate, the Speaker. In 1837, he still give up the legal profession and the speaker of the duties, the first secretary of the state Board of Education, to work in public education campaigns. During the 12-year term of office, Horace Mann • opposed public education and various social and religious forces and unremitting struggle, created a state of the education management system, and promote the development of sports in public schools, so that the state become a national model. Besides engaging in the affairs of the heavy work, in his statewide speaking tour for a year to write the annual report of education. Annual report 12 involving almost all aspects of the field of education, a clear-cut stand to express his point of view, in the United States has led to strong reactions. 1848, Horace Mann to the House of Representatives • serve, but his heart is still the development of public education, after 1853, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty antioch, Ohio, died in 1859.
Horace Mann in promoting the development of U.S. public schools to make an outstanding contribution, as the "father of American public schools," he popularization of education, teacher education ideology is not only a profound impact on the American educational theory and practice, but also in the international the education sector also had enormous repercussions. He had better give up personal political future and dedicate themselves to education, concerned about the sufferings of the spirit of the people worthy of people's admiration. However, his ideas that exist in class and age limitations, such as the beautification of the United States system of government, religious thought and so on, is that we must remove.