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Horace MannвЂ™s Vision of the Public Schools. Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America. New York: Teachers College Press, 1957.ДЇraser, James W.

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Republic and the School: Horace Mann on the Education of Free Man.

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David Carleton is the chair of the Department of Global Studies and Human Geography at Middle Tennessee State University. This article was originally published in 2009. But here it stops.because disclaims to act as an umpire between hostile religious opinions.вЂќ In defense of nonsectarian schools in his last school board report, Mann argued that the common school вЂњearnestly inculcates all Christian morals,вЂќ and вЂњin receiving the Bible, it allows it to do what it is allowed to do in no other system,-to speak for itself. Schempp (1963), in which the Court invalidated school-sponsored prayer and Bible readings in public schools on establishment clause grounds, the Supreme Court had begun to use the establishment clause of the First Amendment to strike prayer and devotional Bible reading (usually from the King James Bible that many Protestants preferred) from the public schools. Vitale (1962) and Abington School District v. First Amendment Court holdings later upheld Mann's nonsectarian visionД«y the 1960s, in cases like Engel v. Some leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, for example, argued that the common schools, while professing to be nonsectarian, in fact embodied general Protestant principles, contrary to the First Amendment.

MannвЂ™s non-sectarian approach to public education was criticized at the time (and is still viewed by some today) as hostile to religion and detrimental to both individual and social morals. In establishing public common schools, Mann opposed sectarian instruction and in its stead advocated instruction in universal Christian principles and values that would allow students to make their own moral judgments. In his twelfth (and last) annualВ report for the Massachusetts school board, Mann wrote that education вЂњis the great equalizer of the conditions of men-the balance-wheel of the social machinery.вЂќ He also argued that universal education would allow the United States to maintain a democracy all Americans, he thought, вЂњmust, if citizens of a Republic, understand something of the true nature and functions of the government under which they live.вЂќ Mann opposed sectarian instruction Mann believed that universal education would allow the United States to avoid the rigid class systems of Europe. Mann promoted universal educationДЄs secretary, Mann advocated for вЂњcommon schools,вЂќ institutions that would be available to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay tuition. In 1837 Mann played a key role in establishing the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and he went on to become the boardвЂ™s first secretary of education. After graduation, he built a successful legal career and was subsequently elected to the state house in 1827 and the state senate in 1833. Mann attended Brown University and the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut. His vision of public education was a precursor to the Supreme CourtвЂ™s eventual interpretation of the establishment clause and church-state separation principles in public schools. Known as the вЂњfather of American education,вЂќ Horace Mann (1796вЂ“1859), a major force behind establishing unified school systems, worked to establish a varied curriculum that excluded sectarian instruction. (Daguerreotype image by Southworth & Hawes, public domain via Wikimedia Commons) His vision of public education was a precursor to the Supreme CourtвЂ™s eventual interpretation of the First Amendment's establishment clause and church-state separation principles in public schools.

Known as the вЂњfather of American education,вЂќ Horace Mann (pictured here circa 1850) worked to establish a varied curriculum that excluded sectarian instruction.