<span>Horace Mann had a huge impact on education, in Massachusetts and nationally. He is best known for his policy on compulsory education--free elementary school education for all. This was in mid-nineteenth century Massachusetts. He is almost as well known for the founding of "normal" schools to prepare elementary teachers, often a one or two-year course of training after grade 10 or so. Among the first two normal schools were Bridgewater Normal School (where I grew up--in its shadow) and Framingham Normal School.</span>
for one thing they didn't teach the slaves to read or write so they would be unintellegent and they would not know of what they could be. they taught them that they are meant to serve
