After 18 14, American capitalist industry developed rapidly. Since 1820, the United States has implemented a tariff protection policy. With the input of ships, the laying of railways and the digging of canals, the industrial and commercial development of the United States, a later capitalist country, was amazing.

On this basis, great changes have taken place in the political situation and class relations in the United States, and the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie has grown. They actively carried out the bourgeois democratic movement and demanded the election of a new bourgeois government to replace the original aristocratic government. When the working class grows up, it also actively strives for the right to education.

All these objectively require attaching importance to education in order to cultivate a new type of labor force and enable it to participate in social and political life. In the 1930s, 19, the United States launched an important movement to popularize compulsory education, namely the public school movement.

The public school movement mainly refers to the free compulsory education movement maintained by public taxes, managed by public educational institutions and facing the whole public.

Horace Mann.

In 1930s, the United States set off an important universal compulsory education movement, namely the public school movement. The public school movement mainly refers to the free compulsory education movement maintained by public taxes, managed by public educational institutions and facing the whole public. In this movement, Horace Mann and others became important promoters, so Horace Mann was called "the father of American public schools".

Horace Mann: American educator and politician. I study at Brown University. After graduation, he studied law and was elected to the state legislature. When he was the Minister of Education, he actively supported the education reform, and believed that in a democratic society, education should be free and universal, a policy of non-discrimination should be implemented, and well-trained professional teachers should be adopted.

Horace Mann believes that public education is the best way to cultivate children's sense of responsibility and morality. He actively promoted the development of public schools and won the support of some people who supported social reform, especially the Whig Party. Horace Mann's concern for normal schools has attracted the attention of many state governments.

Because of his pioneering contribution to the development of American public schools, he is praised by many historians as "the father of American public schools".