Event Title
Horace Mann: Utopian Global Patriot or Failed College President?
Location
Burnell 109
Start Time
10-5-2012 11:15 AM
End Time
10-5-2012 11:45 AM
Description
Horace Mann (1796-1859), the first Secretary of Education of Massachusetts (1837) and the ‘Father of American public education,’ was a leading cosmopolitan thinker and educator in the 19th century. He envisioned the role of education as cultivating the humanity of each child. By 1852 he sacrificed a promising political career for public service in education and moved with his wife to the banks of the muddy Little Miami River to become the first president of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. His parting words to graduates at Antioch in 1859 are re-enacted each year by the BSU president. Using research and materials from a manuscript of a book to be published in 2013 on the history of international education, I will explore the historical context of Mann’s vision for education and identify other voices in literature, politics and religion at that time whose vision matched that of Mann’s.
Horace Mann: Utopian Global Patriot or Failed College President?
Burnell 109
Horace Mann (1796-1859), the first Secretary of Education of Massachusetts (1837) and the ‘Father of American public education,’ was a leading cosmopolitan thinker and educator in the 19th century. He envisioned the role of education as cultivating the humanity of each child. By 1852 he sacrificed a promising political career for public service in education and moved with his wife to the banks of the muddy Little Miami River to become the first president of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. His parting words to graduates at Antioch in 1859 are re-enacted each year by the BSU president. Using research and materials from a manuscript of a book to be published in 2013 on the history of international education, I will explore the historical context of Mann’s vision for education and identify other voices in literature, politics and religion at that time whose vision matched that of Mann’s.
Comments
Moderator: Robert Sylvester