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Horace Mann
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- 38
Top works
- Life In The Argentine
- Popes at the Height of Their Temporal Influence. Part One : A. D. 1130-1216
- Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages. Part One
- Lives of the Popes Volumes II-III
- Schiller's Philosophical Letters
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5 total works indexed
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- Nonparametric Tests Against Trend
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- On a Test of Whether one of Two Random Variables is Stochastically Larger than the Other
· 1947 · cited 10,844x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
- The Perseus computational platform for comprehensive analysis of (prote)omics data
· 2016 · cited 8,186x
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Quotes
- “If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
- “Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.”
- “God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.”
- “Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.”
- “Lost — Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.”
- “Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. As childhood advances to manhood, the transition from bad manners to bad morals is almost imperceptible. Vulgar and obscene forms of speech keep vulgar and obscene objects before the mind, engender impure images in the imagination, and make unlawful desires prurient. From the prevalent state of the mind, actions proceed, as water rises from a fountain.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- John Quincy Adams
- Succeeded by
- Tappan Wentworth
- Born
- ( 1796-05-04 ) May 4, 1796, Franklin, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- August 2, 1859 (1859-08-02) (aged 63), Yellow Springs, Ohio , U.S.
- Resting place
- North Burial Ground , Providence, Rhode Island , U.S.
- Party
- Whig
- Spouses
- Charlotte Messer Mann (d. 1832) Mary Peabody Mann
- Alma mater
- Brown University Litchfield Law School
- Occupation
- Lawyer Educator College president
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Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American educational reformer, abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education; he is thus also known as The Father of American Education. In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives (1848–1853). From September 1852 to his death in 1859, he served as President of Antioch College.
Arguing that universal public education was the best way to provide a quality education for all of America's children, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers, especially in the Whig Party, for building public schools. Most U.S. states adopted a version of the system Mann established in Massachusetts, especially the program for normal schools to train professional teachers. Educational historians credit Horace Mann, along with Henry Barnard and Catharine Beecher, as one of the major advocates of the Common School Movement.