Mann, Horace

Ms., 1796-1859. A famous Ma achusetts educator and philanthropist, president of Antioch College, Ohio, 1852-59, and for twelve years secretary of the Ma achusetts Board of Education. He entirely remodelled the school system of his State. Beside his twelve important annual reports on education, he published Lectures on Education; An Educational Tour; Thoughts for a Young Man; Slavery: Letters and Speeches; Lectures on Intemperance; Powers and Duties of Women. See Life by Mrs. Mann; Boone’s Education in the United States; Gordey’s Rise and Growth of the Normal School System; Horace Mann, the Educator, by A. Winship. Le.