Horace Mann / Educating for democracy
Jessie Treichler; Illustrated by Robert Boehmer
- Chicago Encyclopaedia Britannica Press 1962
- 192 p.
- Great lives series .
Mann's importance springs from his two guiding principles: that free public education for everyone regardless of race, sex, religion, and economic class should be possible to develop each student's individuality; and that since schools are no better than the teachers working in them, teachers must be as well trained as possible.