Question

8. The Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education who was called the "Father of the public school
system" and a prominent proponent of public school, the academic year, and training & higher salaries to
teachers was?

Answer 1

This was Horace Mann. He helped create and design the first educational system in the United States, he was the Massachusetts' Secretary of the Board of Education and he started the "Mann's Six Principles", which were his thoughts of how he would choose decisions. He did a lot for schooling and shaped it how it really is today.