Ah, ja, the Shnitzel is quite gut today,ja? I am Horace Mann, A Senator and former represenative, from Massachusetts, and a proud supporter of improving our education system in the United states.
As a boy, I spent many days licking the sauerkraut from my fingers as I read in the library of Benjamin Franklin, studying there until I went to Brown university, and then went to law school in Lichtfield. Once I tired of being a lawyer, I decided to become a congressman, and in 1827, I became a represenative. But then I ran for senate, and won, and then I was given an offer to join the MA board of education, which I ran with an iron fist of knowledge, instituting reforms such as the "normal school", where teachers for lower schools would be taught, as well as establishing the standards for public schools in MA. Some people call me the father of education, but I try not to brag.
Ah Vell. It's time to eat, isn't it?
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Horace Mann, your contribution to eduation pleases me very much. I appreciate your efforts to increase literacy and educate both males and Females. I, too share this eqalatarian approach to education. In fact, I am a proffesor at Oberlin college, one of the first American colleges to teach African americans and women along with men.
- Charles Grandison Finney
Hello Mr. Mann, I do not believe we have much in common but what I do see is that we share a common interest in schooling. I was a teacher at a Quaker school when I first learned of the injustice of men being paid three times more than the women staff! Maybe you, since you believe in establishing standards for schools could help me fix this problem?
--Lucretia Mott
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