1. Chapter Three: Horace Mann
Tozer, Violas, and Senese

2. 1. Why do Tozer, Violas and Senese decide to use Massachusetts as their spring board for a discussion of this topic?

3. 2. What generalizations could one make about the use of Massachusetts to the rest of the country? What about Idaho?

4. 3. What sort of society was this period. What was industry like
3. What sort of society was this period? What was industry like? How were children faring? What was the political and religious climate?

5. 4. Who was Horace Mann. What was his philosophy
4. Who was Horace Mann? What was his philosophy? What critical historical changes occurred in education because of his philosophy?

6. 5. Tozer, Violas and Senese take a position that Horace Mann's thinking about schooling and society was perfectly consistent with Jefferson's view, just with different applications? Are you buying that argument? Or would you say otherwise?

7. 6. So did Horace Mann do a good thing for women or not? Why?

8. 7. Considering what Tozer, Violas and Senese discuss about women moving into education, do you see any parallels to education today?