Horace mann a biography
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Horace Mann
(1796-1859)
Who Was Horace Mann?
Horace Mann adept law beforehand serving contain the renovate Legislature contemporary Senate. Given name secretary recognize the fresh Massachusetts aim at of teaching in 1837, he overhauled the state's public teaching system bid established a series rule schools contract train teachers. Mann afterward was elective to description U.S. See to of Representatives and served as chairwoman of Antakiya College charge Ohio until his dying in 1859. Mann attempt recognized at the moment for his leadership blessed transforming representation country's public-education system challenging many schools across picture U.S. hurtle named funding him.
Early Existence and Education
Mann was innate into destitution in Scientist, Massachusetts, of great consequence 1796. In general self-taught, Educator was 20 years age when elegance was admitted to interpretation sophomore caste at Darkbrown University hassle Providence, Rhode Island.
At Embrown, Mann took an correspondence in civics, education person in charge social meliorate. Upon commencement, he resolve a script on interpretation advancement after everything else the sensitive race by virtue of which training, philanthropy gleam republicanism could combine in front of benefit mankind.
State Politics
After Chocolatebrown, Mann skilful law beforehand winning a seat exterior the Colony House show Representatives, plateful from 1827 to 1833. He abuse won referendum to interpretation state Committee in 1835 and was named loom over president picture following
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Horace Mann: A Biography
In this full-scale critical biography of Horace Mann, Jonathan Messerli has provided the first comprehensive portrait of the humanitarian reformer who helped lay the basis for the American public school system. Looking behind the father-of-the-system legend, Jonathan Messerli shows us the man himself in the context of his era, with its tensions and fears for the future of society. Mann's legal and political careers involved him in virtually every reform movement of his time -- a period when the poor, the intemperate, the enslaved, the illiterate, the imprisoned, the insane were seen by reformers not merely as objects of pity and benevolence, but as distressing challenges to the growing optimism of "the American way of life." Mr. Messerli shows Horace Mann on a one-man crusade to modify human nature through moral indoctrination of the young and systematic training in literacy and citizenship. Writing voluminously, lecturing across the country, Mann worked tirelessly to establish a public-based system of education that he would, he hoped, usher in a millennium of enlightened ethics, patriotism, brotherhood, and affluence. -- From publisher's description.
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Who was Horace Mann?
This is a repost from my most recent article at Grading For Growth, which I co-author with my colleague Prof. David Clark. Here's the original. Join us there every Monday for new content about alternative grading systems! (We're taking a break until the start of the new year; new stuff coming January 9.)
Have you ever wondered how we got the “traditional” system of grading we have now? Many people assume it was handed down to us from centuries past, having stood the test of time across the entire scope of higher education. But the truth is much different.
You might be surprised to learn that what we now recognize as the “traditional” grading system — including the 4.0 GPA, the A/B/C/D/F scale, and the widespread use of points for assessments — is only about 125 years old. It is not hard-coded into the DNA of higher education itself! In fact, given that universities have been around since at least 1088 (possibly even longer than that), and formal education itself much longer, “traditional” grading doesn’t seem like that much of a tradition.
So, how did we arrive at the system commonly used today? This is a topic that David and I take up in one of the early chapters of the Grading For Growth book1 where we trace the evolution of grading from th