So next time you need to take a test, remember to thank Horace Mann.

因此，下次你需要参加考试时，记得要感谢霍勒斯·曼哦。

But most of the credit for our modern American school life is given to a guy named Horace Mann.

但是，现代美国学校生活的大部分功劳都归功于一个叫霍勒斯·曼的人。

Horace Mann, " the father of modern education" , did the same thing as he grew older.

“现代教育之父” 霍勒斯曼随着年龄的增长也做了同样的事情。

The Secretary of Education for the state of Massachusetts at the time, Horace Mann studied several systems across Europe to find the one that he believed would be the best for America.

霍勒斯·曼恩是当时马萨诸塞州的教育部长，他研究了欧洲的几个教育体系，想找到他认为最适合美国的教育系统。

The widespread availability of public schools really took off in the middle of the 19th century, when politician and educational reformer Horace Mann pushed for Massachusetts to create a formalized, state funded system of primary schools.

公立学校的广泛普及真正在 19 世纪中叶开始，当时政治家和教育改革家霍勒斯·曼 (Horace Mann) 推动马萨诸塞州建立正规的、国家资助的小学系统。