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Lawrence A. Cremin
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LOCATION: New York, NY, United States
Frederick A.P. Barnard Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1961–90. Author of American Education: The National Experience.
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Horace Mann was an American educator, the first great American advocate of public education who believed that, in a democratic society, education should be free and universal, nonsectarian, democratic in method, and reliant on well-trained professional teachers. Mann grew up in an environment ruled…
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