page_title: Horace Mann
section_title: Commemoration
hierarchical_section_title: Horace Mann / Legacy / Commemoration
caption_attribution_description: English: Horace_Mann2_1940_Issue-1c.jpg
context_page_description: Horace Mann was an American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education. In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives. From September 1852 to his death, he served as President of Antioch College.
  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.
  Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn unruly American children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers, especially in the Whig Party, for building public schools. Most U.S. states adopted a version of the system Mann established in Massachusetts, especially the program for normal schools to train professional teachers.
context_section_description: Many places, including schools, around the world are named after Mann, among them the Horace Mann Auditorium at Bridgewater State University (formerly known as Bridgewater State College and Bridgewater State Normal School), and Horace Mann Elementary School in St Joseph, Missouri.
  Horace Mann's statue stands in front of the Massachusetts State House along with that of Daniel Webster.
  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."
  The University of Northern Colorado named the gates to their campus in his dedication, a gift of the Class of 1910.
  The Springfield, Illinois-based Illinois Education Association Mutual Insurance Company, was renamed in honor of Mann in 1950 as the Horace Mann Educators Corporation.
  Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, has a building named Horace Mann School. It currently houses the Student Welcoming Center.
  In Massachusetts, public charter schools that are authorized by local school districts are known as Horace Mann charters.
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Hominy, Oklahoma
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Rapid City, South Dakota 
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Newton, Massachusetts
  Horace Mann Middle School in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Bakersfield, California
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Glendale, California
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Woodward, Oklahoma
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Beverly Hills, California
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Huntington, Indiana
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Duncan, Oklahoma
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Binghamton, New York
  Horace Mann Elementary a School in Washington, D.C.
  Horace Mann Academy in Chicago, Illinois
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Indiana, Pennsylvania
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Iowa City, Iowa
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Ottumwa, Iowa
  Horace Mann Elementary (now Lincoln K-8) School in Rochester, Minnesota
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Saint Paul, Minnesota
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Sedalia, Missouri
  Horace Mann Elementary School, a National Register of Historic Places listing in St. Louis, Missouri
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
  Horace Mann Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colorado
  Horace Mann Elementary School in North Bergen, New Jersey
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Fargo, North Dakota
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Dayton, Ohio
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Lakewood, Ohio
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Springfield, Ohio
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Ogden, Utah
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Redmond, Washington
  Horace Mann Middle School in Neenah, Wisconsin
  Horace Mann Junior High School In Los Angeles, California
  Mann Elementary School in Long Beach, California
  Horace Mann School in Amesbury, Massachusetts
  Horace Mann School in Salem, Massachusetts
  Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Allston, Massachusetts
  Horace Mann School, Bronx, New York
  Mann Arts and Science Magnet Middle School in Little Rock, Arkansas
  Horace Mann Middle School in Mann's birthplace Franklin, Massachusetts
  Horace Mann Middle School in Abilene, Texas
  Horace Mann Middle School in Amarillo, Tx.
  Horace Mann Middle School in San Diego, California
  Horace Mann Middle School in Brandon, Florida
  Horace Mann Middle School in North Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin
  Horace Mann Middle School in Wausau, Wisconsin
  Horace Mann Elementary School in Bayonne, New Jersey
  Horace Mann Elementary School in San Jose, California
  Northwest Missouri State University, in Maryville, Missouri, named their education building in honor of Horace Mann.
  The Horace Mann Auditorium at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Massachusetts
  The Main building housing the Presidents Office along with Student Accounts located on the campus of Westfield State University in Westfield, Massachusetts
  A building of Teachers College, Columbia University is named for him.
  East Central University in A
caption: Mann on a 1940 stamp from the Famous Americans series
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