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1
The huge expansion of commerce that occurred in the first half of the nineteenth century distributed wealth more evenly across the population.
A)True
B)False
2
The new view on education in the nineteenth century was that mass education was important in order to equip individuals with the ability to respond rationally to life's challenges.
A)True
B)False
3
Horace Mann's beliefs and actions followed a strictly Jeffersonian classical liberal ideology.
A)True
B)False
4
The most important educational topic addressed by Horace Mann during his tenure as secretary to the Massachusetts State Board of Education was reform of the curriculum subject matter.
A)True
B)False
5
Horace Mann was impressed with his observations of the Prussian school system, despite the fact that the system was class-based and consisted of separate tiers of schooling for common and aristocratic classes.
A)True
B)False
6
Like Plato, Horace Mann believed that instruction that was aimed at increasing a student's ability to make money was vulgar and did not deserve to be called education.
A)True
B)False
7
Horace Mann believed that school governance should be kept at the local level out of the reach of state government influence.
A)True
B)False
8
Horace Mann's businessperson supporters found common school education for their workers beneficial for instilling a value system amenable to life in an industrial factory.
A)True
B)False
9
Mann advocated for increasing the number of women in the teaching profession, in part because women's lower salaries would save money for the state.
A)True
B)False
10
All forms of corporal punishment were forbidden from the common school.
A)True
B)False





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