Education Reform

HORACE MANN

HORACE MANN BELIEVED THE ONLY WAY THE LOWER CLASSES COULD BETTER THEIR LIVES IN OUR SOCIETY WAS THROUGH FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION!

FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION!!!• HORACE MANN –

• Known as the “Father of the Common School” because he…

• The earliest attempts to professionalize teaching

• first public schools in Massachusetts (Normal schools)

• The improvement of the quality of education offered in rural schools.

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON• FOUNDED THE TUSKEEGEE INSTITUTE• HE BELIEVED THAT ANY African- American

PERSON COULD SUCCEED IN AMERICA WITH ENOUGH HARD WORK AND EDUCATION.

Prison Reform

Dorothea Dix

American reformer Dorothea Dix pushed for reform of prison inmates, the mentally ill, and the destitute.

Dix went to teach prisoners to read at a local jail…

• Within the confines of this jail she observed….

• When asked why the jail conditions were so bad, the answer she was given was that

• Horrified by the conditions provided for the mentally ill in Massachusetts

• prostitutes, drunks, criminals, mentally challenged individuals, and the seriously mentally ill all housed together

• in unheated, unfurnished, and foul-smelling quarters.

• “the insane do not feel heat or cold.”

• Dix successfully petitioned the state government for improvements in 1843.

• She was directly responsible for building or enlarging 32 mental hospitals in North America, Europe, and Japan.