When I first read the title of this article‚ I realized Nacirema is American backwards. Horace Miner’s article Body Ritual among the Nacirema is about the way a group of North Americans and their culture. Nacirema’s people lived in the early 1900’s and these people were extremely obsessed with body rituals. During one of these rituals men used what’s described as a chisel to scrap faces. These rituals are usually done in what’s described as a shrine area where there’s potions and medicine to be
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In 1837‚ Horace Mann discontinued his political profession to become secretary of the Massachusetts State Legislature due to condition of the state’s public schools. He later told a speech to the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1848. He explains his opinions on the issues of education and the social class. His speeches specifically have information about the religious‚ intellectual‚ physical‚ moral and political aspects of education. One of his opinions is education needs flexibility to help students
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Horace Mann‚ the father of education‚ made the bold statement that if one lacks education‚ they are no better than a swine. In a world where only the rich were literate‚ he dreamed of equality between classes and he thought education was the way to get there. Obvious improvement has been made since 1848‚ but students still learn at unequal rates. Afraid to refer to it as a "civil rights" issue‚ the problem is ignored even as income‚ gender‚ race‚ and even immigrant status like Antonio Alvarez writes
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As a rationale for his support of public education‚ Horace Mann‚ as the Secretary of the Mass. State Board of Education‚ wrote his 12th Annual Report. This report was based upon his own theories and ideas of education. A few of the theories that Mann touched upon were: opportunity and what it had to offer to the often non-educated‚ the worth of learning how to use knowledge and how the values of society can affect education. In order to portray these theories to main stream society‚ Mann used the
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The public education in American still resembles that described by Horace Mann in the late 1830s. Horace Mann wished to establish a state board of education and adequate tax support for public schools. He discouraged corporal punishment‚ believed education was a means of creating law-abiding citizens‚ and believed it would open doors for lower class children to be more successful than their parents were. Horace Mann was a lawyer and member of the state legislature. He proposed a state board of
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The Influence of Horace Mann on Educational Reform Terri Schryer St. Petersburg College EDF 3660 Fall 2011 Abstract This paper discusses the influence of Horace Mann on the issue of education of the masses‚ evident in his dedication to improving the quality of education through the process of improving teacher education‚ increasing available funding‚ and standardizing the quality of educational experience provided to its students. It addresses specifically
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Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania‚ but he spent much of his youth in Iowa. He had become the director of the Mercantile Library in St. Louis in Missouri. Also he became an expert in exploration‚ be outdoors and to study nature was one of his greatest passions. Kephart was married very young‚ but her marriage turned out to be very unhappy. He began drinking‚ he lost his job and his wife left him. In the end he had a nervous breakdown. He decided to start over a new life. He wanted to
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As an introduction‚ Horace Miner in his essay provides again the definition of an anthropologist‚ in which we have to maintain an open mind regarding things we may not understand. He introduces the Nacirema people for their “exotic customs”. Extreme behaviors in human aspects that have been either suspected or been imagined can be found in this tribe. A study done on them was conducted due to many unknown (pre-study) details regarding this tribe. The Nacirema culture views the human body is “ugly
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In Nacirema‚ Horace Miner uses satire and wordplay to teach us how easy it is to judge cultures that we don’t know much about. Miner is sneakily describing American culture‚ their entire way of life including both material and symbolic elements‚ the whole time77. Miner is trying to teach us that ethnocentrism‚ using your own culture as a standard to evaluate another‚ leads to the belief that other cultures are inferior78. Instead‚ we should be using cultural relativism‚ understanding other cultures
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Two Opposite Perspectives of School In the article named “Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education” by Horace Mann‚ the author explains that school is an integral step to prepare for students to be aware of the responsibilities of becoming good citizens. On the other hand‚ the text “Against Schools” by John Taylor Gatto emphasizes that the role of the school system is not necessary in society since it forces students to go to school and sit around in classes for a certain amount of hours for
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