Horace Mann had an extremely unique style of education that he heavily advocated for in the state of Massachusetts: the common schooling system. Mann served as the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education while advocating for this style of education. Common school values included curriculum that would "embrace a variety of educational innovations" (Urban, 93), as well as provide the same level of education to all children in the state of Massachusetts, no matter income level.
Alongside this notion that all children should be taught the same as each other, Mann also used the Christian religion to convince citizens of Massachusetts to send their children to school. Mann used Christianity to explain that God places a right of education for every child that is born into the world (Fraser, 45). Due to the state of Massachusetts having such a high Protestant population, many people bought into this idea presented by Horace Mann, and therefore helped to establish what he sought out to create in his home state: a common school.
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