TERM: Who was Horace Mann? (scroll down for definition)

Definition for: Horace Mann

Massachusetts legislator who favored universal public education as the means to create a population of disciplined good young citizens. His plans began in Massachusetts, and spread to other states. Education is a reserved, or state, power, so this was done on a state to state basis.

More education occurred for adults as traveling lecturers, or lyceums, spoke about everything from science to philosophy. The movement was founded by Josiah Holbrook. Ralph Waldo Emerson was known to speak at lyceum lectures.

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