While Mann served in the Senate, the Massachusetts education system was suffering, and the quality of education was deteriorating. But then a reform movement arose, and in 1837 the state created the nation’s first board of education, with Mann as its secretary. During this time he also developed his hugely influential main principles regarding public education and its troubles:(1) Citizens cannot maintain both ignorance and freedom; (2) This education should be paid for, controlled, and maintained by the public; (3) This education should be provided in schools that embrace children from varying backgrounds; (4) This education must be nonsectarian; (5) This education must be taught using tenets of a free society; and (6) This education must …show more content…
There are a few special school where some of the principles are not in use. Such at religious private schools where most are sectarian, and are not paid by the public but the individual families. Schools embrace children from varying backgrounds and make them all feel equal and welcomed. Today we are taught with a tenant of free society, where we are free to believe whatever we like and are not forced on to others beliefs. todays society and educational system have improved a lot and there are different styles of learning, we incorporate technology, music, drama, and many other techniques to make it better for students with different learning abilities able to understand there