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HORACE MANN
HORACE MANN BELIEVED THE ONLY WAY THE LOWER CLASSES COULD BETTER THEIR LIVES IN OUR SOCIETY WAS THROUGH FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION!
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FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION!!!• HORACE MANN –
• Known as the “Father of the Common School” because he…
• The earliest attempts to professionalize teaching
• first public schools in Massachusetts (Normal schools)
• The improvement of the quality of education offered in rural schools.
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON• FOUNDED THE TUSKEEGEE INSTITUTE• HE BELIEVED THAT ANY African- American
PERSON COULD SUCCEED IN AMERICA WITH ENOUGH HARD WORK AND EDUCATION.
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Prison Reform
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Dorothea Dix
American reformer Dorothea Dix pushed for reform of prison inmates, the mentally ill, and the destitute.
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Dix went to teach prisoners to read at a local jail…
• Within the confines of this jail she observed….
• When asked why the jail conditions were so bad, the answer she was given was that
• Horrified by the conditions provided for the mentally ill in Massachusetts
• prostitutes, drunks, criminals, mentally challenged individuals, and the seriously mentally ill all housed together
• in unheated, unfurnished, and foul-smelling quarters.
• “the insane do not feel heat or cold.”
• Dix successfully petitioned the state government for improvements in 1843.
• She was directly responsible for building or enlarging 32 mental hospitals in North America, Europe, and Japan.