[Ayn And Milton]

Thanks for your comment. I will seek out the story on Horace Mann (seems like an interesting American precedent).

[Jabba the Nutt]

Horace Mann and the Boston Schoolmasters had a back and forth and back and forth on Mann's theories of teaching and the nature of man. I found out about this from Samuel Blumenfeld's book Is Public Education Necessary? This book gives you the history of the imposition of Prussian education on America. All for a progressive purpose of course.