Horace Mann (Person)
Horace Mann
1796 AD - 1859 AD
American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education.
About Mann's intellectual progressivism, the historian Ellwood P. Cubberley said:
No one did more than he to establish in the minds of the American people the conception that education should be universal, non-sectarian, free, and that its aims should be social efficiency, civic virtue, and character, rather than mere learning or the advancement of sectarian ends.
At Antioch College, a monument carries his quote, which has been recently adopted as the college motto:
"Be Ashamed to Die Until You Have Won Some Victory for Humanity."
- Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from MA's 8th district 1848 – 1853
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