The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1954 Page: 11 of 12
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THE SHINER GAZETTE — SHINER, TEXAS
Thursday, February 4, 1954
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the home
Saturday
schools
a less
1859, at the age of 63. The years
have added to his stature. Hon-
ored throughout the world to-
day as the father of the Ameri-
can^ public schools, he stands
high on the list of great Am-
ericans, along with Washington,
Franklin, Jefferson, and Lin-
coln. He is one of five educators
in the Hall of Fame at New
York University. Above his
statue at National Education
Association headquarters appear
the famous words of his last
commencement address, epit-
omizing his own life and chal-
lenging each of us:
“Be ashamed to die until you
have won some victory for
humanity.”
seeking intelligent
to the manufacturer
reliable workmen, and
statesman wishing to
democratic govern-
A family dinner at
of Mrs. Elo Wolters
included Mr. and Mrs. Bis-
mark Runk of Alice, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Runk of San An-
tonio, Mrs. H. Probst, Miss Win-
nie Probst of Yoakum and Miss
Emma Runk.
The most difficult problem of
all was in persuading
pie themselves of the
such improvements,
most twelve years he
day and night,
every hamlet in the state, talk-
ing with people about their
schools. He pointed out the val-
ue of education to the young
person hoping to succeed, to the
merchant
buyers,
needing
to the
improve
ment. Often his welcome was
as frigid as the New England
winter. Arriving with the gov-
ernor on one occasion to ad-
dress a meeting, he found no
fire lighted, the floor unswept.
To the governor’s amazement,
Mann swept the floor himself.
During his last years as sec-
retary, Mann had the constant
help of his second wife, Mary
Peabody Mann, whom he mar-
ried eleven years after Char-
lotte Mann’s death. Mary was
the sifter of Mrs. Nathaniel
Hawthrone and of Elizabeth
Peabody. The Mann’s were the
parents of three sons. During
where a campus
He then organized
first “experimental”
America. Here was
Texas A. & M. students who
have been visiting at home be-
tween terms were Oran Carl
Remmers, John Degenhardt and
Willie Kutac.
Marjorie Brod, Kenneth Otto
and Henry J. Neuman have re-,
sumed studies at State Univer-
sity after spending
at home.
Mann’s stay as secretary of edr
ucation from 1837 to 1848—
more was written, said, and
done about public education
than in all the years of the col-
onies or young republic up to
that time.
The first public normal school
in America opened in Lexing-
ton, Massachusetts, on July 3,
1839. Of all improvements
which Horace Mann set under-
way, founding the normal
schools was probably the most
far-reaching.
Horace Mann resigned the
secretary-ship to take the place
of John Q. Adams, _ who had
fallen dead at his desk.
After four years in Congress,
Mann was chosen president of
Antioch College at Yellow
Springs, Ohio. The college was
just unfinished buildings, and
mud-holes
should be.
one of the
colleges in
to be a school open to both sex-
es, at a time when few women
had any opportunity for higher
education, and open to all races
at a time when Negroes were
still slaves. Physical education
was stressed; students were al-
lowed some choice of subjects.
Mann had quite a time keeping
funds sufficient to keep the col-
lege going.
Horace Mann died August 2,
the peo-
need for
For al-
traveled
stopping in
yer. Instead of the prestige he
had enjoyed, he was denounced
as a meddler, a godless crank,
an ignoramus. He was opposed,
in his efforts to improve
schools, by “sordid politicians,
unprogressive schoolmen, and
sectarian preachers.” In spite of
poor health, he worked an aver-
age of fifteen hours daily. He
had no clerical help; he often
wrote forty letters a day—in
longhand—in addition
other duties.
The condition of the
was so desperate that
courageous man would have
despaired. But Mann had his
program ready: he wanted to
rebuild the old, squalid, “wig-
wam” schoolhouse and make
them comfortable. He was eager
to banish cruel and harsh pun-
ishments from the schools. The
Boston Survey Committee
found the floggings in a repre-
sentative school to average 65
per day for 400 children. He
resolved to find special schools,
called normal schools, where
young people could learn the
art of study by adding music,
hygiene, drawing, and other
subjects he had so sorely missed
DK. FRED A. BERCKENHOFF
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OFFICE HOURS: 8:30 AM TO 5:30 PM
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IN SHINER EVERY SATURDAY
The Ella E. Lane Future
Teachers of America Club of
Shiner High School wrote
themes on famous educators of
the United States.
The theme by Helen Pustej-
ovsky was chosen to represent
the club’s project. Second place
award went to Gloria Ann
Kloesel, whose paper will
published in another issue.
HORACE MANN
(By Helen Pustejovsky)
Horace Mann was born on
farm near Franklin, Massachu-
setts, May 4, 1796. He was thir-
teen when his father died. He
helped his widowed mother
support the family of five chil-
dren by working on a farm and
by braiding straw for a nearby
hat factory. “I believe in the
rugged nursing of Toil,” he later
said, “but she nursed me too
much.” The public or “pauper”
schools were open for such pe-
riods that until he was fifteen,
Horace never attended school
more than eight or ten weeks
a year. His early education
came more from the 116 vol-
umes in the Franklin library
than from the schools. These
books—mostly theologies were
hardly suitable for children, but
young Horace made the most of
them. In after years he spoke
of his parents’ influence: “All
my boyish castles in the air had
reference to doing something
for the benefit of mankind.”
Better educated than most of
the itinerant schoolmasters was
the scholar, Mr. Barrett, who
prepared Horace for college. By
studying day and night, Horace
learned in six months what
other students took years to
learn. At twenty he entered
Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island, and in 1819 grad-
uated at the head of his class.
After graduation and a brief
period of tutoring, he entered
Judge Gould’s famous law
school at Litchfield, Connecti-
cut. Horace was known as the
best wit, best whist player, the
best scholar, and the best law-
yer in the school.
Horace Mann opened a law
office in Dedham. His rule was,
“Never espouse the wrong side
of a cause knowlingly.” He had
a reputation of winning four-
fifths of his cases. People trust-
Mill every Wednesday, Friday and'
Saturday, until further notice.
We carry a complete line of feeds
in connection with the mill.
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ed him, and his law practice
grew. They elected him to the
state legislature.
Horace Mann spent nine years
in the state legislature. Personal
sorrows crowded upon him dur-
ing these years. His young wife,
Charlotte, daughter of Presi-
dent Messer of Brown Univer-
sity, died after they had been
married only two years. In the
space of a few years he suffer-
ed the loss of his mother, his
father-in-law, and his brother,
whose notes Mann had endorsed
and by whose failure he was so
impoverished in paying off
debts that fop? years he could
afford no home save a cot in his
office.
He turned more and more to
his work, and to his life-long
motive—to do something for
mankind. Through his influence
the first insane assylum in the
United States was established
at Worcester. As president of
the senate, he helped pass the
law, in April 1837, which creat-
ed the Massachusetts Board of
Education.
The state board of education
was created to help bring about
the need for schools in the new
democracy, but little had been *n his. own youth,
done. “Any hovel would do for
for a schoolhouse; any primer
would do for a textbook; any
farmer’s apprentice was com-
petent to keep school.” Over
half the children of the nation
had no chance to attend school.
Moreover, many people accept-
ed the view that education was
the privilege of the wealthy.
They saw no need to educate
future citizens to take part in
government. Democracy itself
was threatened with failure.
Realizing that only a statesman
interested in education for all
could give leadership in the
battle for improving schools,
the board offered its secretary-
ship to Horace Mann.
Horace Mann was 41 years
old when he made his great de-
cision to become secretary of
the state board of education. To
a client who tried to dissuade
him from giving up a success-
ful law practice for an obscure
job, Mann replied: “The inter-
est of a client are small com-
pared with the interests of the
next generation. Let the next
generation, then, be my client.”
The new position paid half as
much as his income as a law-
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Lane, Ella E. The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1954, newspaper, February 4, 1954; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1175903/m1/11/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.