who is horace mann and what did he do
The Father of American Education, Horace Mann, was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, in 1796. Mann's schooling consisted only of brief and erratic periods of eight to ten weeks a year.Mann educated himself by reading ponderous volumes from the Franklin Town Library.hat is most important about Mann's view of the common school is that he saw in it an educational purpose truly common to all (12, Cremin). As Secretary of the Board of Education, Mann presided over the establishment of the first public normal school in the United States at Lexington in 1839.