[Red Jones]

thanks for that account; the historian you used seems to have a very good line on it; you know how these historians are, different ones have different stories;

[Aquinasfan]

you know how these historians are, different ones have different stories;

I wouldn't put disingenuousness past them. I've been searching on Horace Mann and it seems that his history has been largely whitewashed. (I found some hard info though, his 10th Address to the Massachusetts Board of Ed. I'll provide exerpts below) But in the case of the history of American education, it's very hard to find hard facts. There are many threads running through its checkered history.