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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