First in the Classics in Education Series , this volume offers excerpts from Horace Mann’s famous annual reports with an eye to their relevance to today’s educational problems. “This series presents the sources of the American educational heritage. There could be no more appropriate beginning than a volume of selections from Horace Mann's reports (1834–1848) to the Massachusetts Board of Education. As the commanding figure of the early public school movement, Mann more than anyone articulated the nineteenth-century American faith in education. His work still stands as the classic statement of the relationship between freedom, popular education, and republican government.” ―From the Foreword by Lawrence A. Cremin The Republic and the School: Horace Mann on the Education of Free Men (Classics in Education Series)
Establishes the American public school education platform of carefully neutered Christianity and implicit nationalism. Essential reading to understand where public education began in the 1840's. 112 Absolutely wonderful background of the man (pun intended) who set the bar pretty damn high for America's education system. Clear and concise, you'll breeze through it, but everything you read will stick. 112 Provides an interesting insight into the transformation of public education in the 1840's. 112