jan 1, 1847 - 1848 Education Reform

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Secretary of 1st Board of Education in the U.S.

Horace Mann
Understood some people are rich and some are “born to toil”
BUT he called education, “the great equalizer"
Reformed education for the handicapped

Set up a sThomas Gallaudet
school for the deaf in Washington D.C
Gallaudet University - the country’s leading school for the disabled, in Washington, D.C. is named for him

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