Born in Massachusetts, 1796 Was self taught, admitted at brown college by the age of 20, where he developed an interest in politics, education and social reform.
In 1837, Mann took power at the state’s (Massachusetts) board of education as its secretary where he started a biweekly journal “Common School Journal”, where he would lecture teachers on education; he also traveled around Europe to learn about established school principles.
principles of education:
-citizens cannot maintain both ignorance and freedom.
-this education should be paid for, controlled and maintained by the public.
-this education should be provided in schools that embrace children from varying backgrounds.
-this education must be nonsectarian.
-this education must be taught using tenets of a free society.
-this education must be provided by well-trained, professional teachers.
Horace Mann