CONCLUSION
Horace Mann’s contributions to the education reformation and
helping achieve the right to a good, public education are the reasons why
Horace Mann deserves the American in Rights Award. In the early 1800s, schools
were very poor. The school houses were poorly kept, the teachers were poorly
educated, and the schools were only open for no longer than three months.
However, Horace Mann did many great things to change those school systems. A few of his accomplishments include creating a school for
teachers to learn the curriculum, collecting money for the schools by
fundraising, and by making it mandatory for schools to be open for at least 6
months out of the year. Some other accomplishments that Mann performed was he created a common school journal that all
the teacher’s used in their classrooms and also created the Board of Education (now known as the Department of Education).
Horace Mann continues to make an impact on the world today. Many of the ideas
he proposed nearly two hundred years ago are still working today. Concepts such as the idea that
everyone, even people from different backgrounds, deserve equal education and that teachers should be properly educated are still being shown today. Another
thing is the Board of Education's existence; it continues to make an impact on families from all over this nation. Horace Mann's principles continue to impact the U.S. to this day and the school systems continue to make changes based of his teachings. That is why Horace Mann deserves the American in Rights Award.