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==Early life==

==Early life==

Horace Mann was born to an inheritance of toil and poverty. He had to work hard and long on the farm of his father. He had little to read, and there was no time for play. From his boyhood he had a profound admiration for learning, and the dream of his life was to become an educated man. He realized even in his childhood the imperfections of the free schools he attended.

Horace Mann was born on May 4, 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=v8QaAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA13 The Cause, Volumes 1-5]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=n1FDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA722 Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior]</ref> to an inheritance of toil and poverty. He had to work hard and long on the farm of his father. He had little to read, and there was no time for play. From his boyhood he had a profound admiration for learning, and the dream of his life was to become an educated man. He realized even in his childhood the imperfections of the free schools he attended.

Early in life he resolved to secure a college education. Horace was but a little boy when he earned the money with which to purchase his school books by braiding straw. From his tenth to his twentieth year he never attended school longer than six weeks in any one year. In writing of the instructors he had at this time he says that they were "very good people, but very poor teachers." This was true of many of the teachers of his day.

Early in life he resolved to secure a college education. Horace was but a little boy when he earned the money with which to purchase his school books by braiding straw. From his tenth to his twentieth year he never attended school longer than six weeks in any one year. In writing of the instructors he had at this time he says that they were "very good people, but very poor teachers." This was true of many of the teachers of his day.