Horace Mann
Differences (then vs. now)
The Process
100

True or False? Did Horace Mann reduce corporal punishment?

What is True?

100

This was a common method of punishment in schools that is now largely considered unacceptable.

What is corporal punishment?

100

This was the name given to the movement that sought to make education more accessible and improve its quality.

What is the Education Reform Movement?

200

Horace Mann of what? 

What is Massachusetts?

200

True or False? With public education being popularized, all parents signed their kids up to attend school.

What is False?

200

True or False? Working class people didn't want their children to go to school with the wealthy children. 

What is False?

300

This is what Horace Mann was known as.

What is the Father of American Education

300

True or False? Colleges opened their curricula to more subjects, rather than just preparing students for the ministry.

What is True?

300

This man popularized the idea that a democratic republic required an enlightened and educated citizenry in the late 18th century. 

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

400

Horace Mann fought for the _____'s support on public schools.

What is the government?

400

How did most the children get to the school house that were miles away? By what means of transportation?

What is walking?
400

This state proposed the idea of “manual labor schools”, where children can still attend school and earn money at the same time.

What is Pennsylvania? 

500

This man opposed Mann's arguments about corporal punishment.

Who is Joseph Hale?

500

Not everyone got to go to school. Who was left out? 

Who are girls, children of color, and children with disabilities? 

500

This is a group of people who believed that education was the solution to social divisions, poverty, and juvenile crimes. 

What is Antebellum reformers.