Horace Mann

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…showed last 75 words of 675 total…schools became. Horace Mann worked throughout his life to improve the quality of education in America. In 1937, Mann accepted a job as the secretary of the state board of education in Massachusetts. This may seem simple, but he had to make many sacrifices. Mann had to do twice the work that he was doing in his former job, but for half the pay. This act showed that Mann wanted badly to help the education system