Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the Hon. Horace Mann (and Six Other Pamphlets): A Collection of Pamphlets in Response to Mann's Seventh Annual Report

Horace Mann; George B Emerson; Leonard Withington; M A De Wolfe Howe; Matthew Hale Smith

C.G. Little and J. Brown; W.B. Fowle and N. Capen; S.N. Dickinson, 1844

[Horace Mann and the School Masters: Educational Reform in 19th century Massachusetts]  A sammelband of seven works bound as one.  Includes the following: [1.] Remarks on the Seventh annual report of the Hon. Horace Mann, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.; 1844, 144 pages; [2.] Reply to the "Remarks" of thirty-one Boston schoolmasters on the Seventh annual report of the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1844, 176 pages; [3.] Observations on a pamphlet, entitled Remarks on the Seventh annual report of the Hon. Horace Mann, secretary of the Massachusetts Board of education, 1844, 16 pages; [4.] Penitential tears; or, A cry from the dust, by "the thirty-one," prostrated and pulverized by the hand of Horace Mann, 1845, 59 pages; [5.] Letter to the Rev. M.H. Smith, in answer to his "Reply," or "Supplement.', 1847, 22 pages; [6.] Sequel to the so called correspondence between the Rev. M.H. Smith and Horace Mann : surreptitiously published by Mr. Smith, containing a letter from Mr. Mann, suppressed by Mr. Smith, 1847, 56 pages; [7.] Review of the Reports of the Annual Visiting Committees of the Public Schools of the City of Boston, 1845, 1846, 58 pages.  

Condition report: The pages are remarkable clean and white.  The works are bound together in early 3/4 sheep over marbled boards.  The spine is stamped in gold, "Historical Papers; "Mann & the Schoolmasters."  The front board has been reattached and the binding is solid.  

Horace Mann was one of the most important figures in the development of universal, non-sectarian, free education in America.  His six reforming principles forms the nucleus of American educational values: 1. the public should no longer remain ignorant; 2. that such education should be paid for, controlled, and sustained by an interested public; 3. that this education will be best provided in schools that embrace children from a variety of backgrounds; 4. that this education must be non-sectarian; 5. that this education must be taught using the tenets of a free society; and that education should be provided by well-trained, professional teachers.  Significantly, Mann attempted to bring children of all classes together and better equalize the conditions of men.  The Seventh Annual Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education included Mann's innovative findings from visits to schools in Europe, particularly Prussia, Saxony, and Holland, which Mann felt were superior to those of Massachusetts.  The report proposed instruction for the blind, deaf, and dumb; modes of teaching children to read; the use of text books; and the abandonment of corporal punishment as a primary means of maintaining school discipline.  Mann's innovative reform attempts created a backlash from Boston schoolmasters and this volume contains both their and Mann's responses.