Horace Mann Common Schools Analysis
This film depicts “common schools” that were created to teach a common body of knowledge. These schools were ideally free, high quality, and funded by tax dollars. This “common school” was an idea created by Horace Mann, who standardized this new “school”, and was considered the “Patron Saint” of public school. The early school took place in a one-room rundown schoolhouse, with very few resources for teachers to choose from. Teachers were uneducated and oftentimes school only began after all the work around the house was done for the day. Public schools have achieved the goal set by Mann to provide free education because the public schools of the present are (mostly) free and tax dollar funded. However, most schools have fees for things like