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The Significance Of The Work Of Colonel Francis Wayland Parker In The Progressive Educational Movement With Special Reference To His Influence On John Dewey, Lea Bevan Moore
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Our American forefathers, with the exception of Thomas Jefferson, had no ideal of a system of universal education. His plans were throttled by slavery, but the doctrine of universal education lived. Then at a time when the whole system of common schools was in danger of failure Horace Mann gave his life to the promotion of the interests of the Common school.
In 1837, the very year Horace Mann gave up his prospect of a famous political career to become Secretary of the State Board of Education in Massachusetts, Francis Wayland Parker was born in New Hampshire, and was destined …