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Horace Mann was a revolutionary American educator whose insights into education continue to inform modern teaching practices. In this collection of lectures and annual reports, Mann lays out his vision for a more equitable and accessible system of education that values the well-being of the whole child. A must-read for anyone interested in education reform. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Lectures, and Annual Reports, on Education In preparing the present volumes of Mr. Mann's works for republication, I have gone back to his very first expositions of the deficiencies in the administration of our common-school system, not only because it is a matter of historical interest to note the commencements of the reform in which he was so actively engaged for twelve years, but because, on looking into the present condition of the schools, even in Massachusetts, in towns not twenty miles from Boston, the same defects may be observed in many cases, and in many respects, which at first attracted his attention. Schoolhouses, as well as churches, are still erected without the proper means of ventilation; seats are still arranged without reference to the eye-sight of the children; examinations of school-teachers, by School Committees, are still very imperfectly conducted, thus entailing upon schools teachers who are deficient either in knowledge, or in the power of governing upon right principles; and no amount of knowledge in a teacher is of much avail where a deficiency in this power exists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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