NOUN
- United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)
How To Use Horace Mann In A Sentence
- As Horace Mann, the great educator, once said, "Habits are like a cable.
- Father of American civic education Horace Mann ever said, it's easy to establish republic, while it's difficult to build up citizens of republic.
- Even Horace Mann, the best known of the education reformers in the 1840s, lamented the slow progress of his efforts, labeling his opponents as "an extensive conspiracy" of "political madmen.
- Massachusetts, the home state of seminal "American educationist" Horace Mann, has a history of being on the cutting edge of public school "reform", and Kennedy certainly fit well within that culture. What is Sen. Ted Kennedy's "Catholic legacy"?
- In a 1939 journal entry, recorded upon arriving in New York to attend the Horace Mann School for Boys, he wrote, I wish to say that this journal is a continual refreshing resource for my castle, which surrounds me; it keeps me aloof from teeming humanity; it keeps me in contact with myself. March 2007
- Horace Mann called phrenology “the greatest discovery of the age.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
