Mann, Horace

A legislator and educational reformer of the nineteenth century. In his home state of Massachusetts , Mann worked to increase the availability and quality of free, nondenominational public schools. Mann has been called the father of the American public school.

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Mann, Horace, I, 73, 79, 83, 94, 121, 123, 169, 185, 227.

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Mann, Horace, advocates libraries, 28; favors school libraries, 172.

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Mann, Horace, uplifts the public schools, 88; goes to Europe, 89; visits Carlyle at Chelsea, 96; inspects the London prisons, 108, 109; opinion of George Combe, 133; praises Dr. Howe's work in the Boston schools, 148; advocates the teaching of speech to deaf-mutes, 149; shrinks from woman suffrage, 157.

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Mann, Horace, 213-214, 228-229, 260.

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Greeley, Horace Horae

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