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What approach to public education did Samuel Gridley Howe support with Horace Mann?

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Samuel Gridley Howe and his friend Horace Mann championed an anti-Calvinist model of public education.1

This approach emphasized that student learning is most effective when facilitated by competent teachers who utilize patience and sympathetic guidance, rather than relying on punitive threats or corporal punishment.1