Lectures on Education

LECTURES

ON

EDUCATION.

BY HORACE MANN,

SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF EDUCATION.

BOSTON:

IDE & DUTTON.

4 January 1802

From the Library of

THOMAS HILL, D..

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Mann

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1845

BY HORACE MANN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

Stereotyped by
GEORGE A. CURTIS;

NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

ΤΟ

HIS EXCELLENCY

GEORGE N. BRIGGS,

GOVERNOR

OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,

AND ex officio

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION,

AND TO

THE OTHER MEMBERS OF SAID BOARD,

THIS VOLUME,

PREPARED AT THEIR REQUEST,

IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.

LECTURE I.

MEANS AND OBJECTS OF COMMON SCHOOL EDU-

CATION,

CONTENTS.

LECTURE II.

SPECIAL PREPARATION, A PRE-REQUISITE TO TEACH-

ING,

LECTURE III.

THE NECESSITY OF EDUCATION IN A REPUBLICAN

GOVERNMENT,

LECTURE IV.

WHAT GOD DOES, and what HE LEAVES FOR MAN

TO DO, IN THE WORK OF EDUCATION,

LECTURE VI.

ON DISTRICT SCHOOL LIBRARIES,

LECTURE VII.

ON SCHOOL PUNISHMENTS,

LECTURE V.

AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF EDUCATION; SHOWING
ITS DIGNITY ANd its DegradATION,

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