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Horace Mann's Influence on South American Libraries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2017
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One might say that Horace Mann's influence began to be felt in South America when he wrote his famous Seventh Annual Report concerning his trip to Europe to inspect schools, though the actual reading of it by the man whom it most impressed did not occur until four years later, in 1847. This man, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, later famous as the “schoolmaster president” of Argentina, spread far and wide the doctrines Mann preached in Massachusetts, and at least three Latin-American nations are the richer because these two leaders of disparate background and destiny met briefly and exchanged ideas.
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1. Argentine Republic. Comisión Nacional de Homenaje a Sarmiento. Páginas selectas de Sarmiento sobre bibliotecas populares. (Buenos Aires, 1938).Google Scholar
2. Sarmiento to Mary Mann, June 15, 1866, quoted in W. M. French and Watt Stewart, “Influence of Horace Mann on the educational ideas of D. F. Sarmiento,” Hispanic-American historical review, 20:12–31, (Feb., 1940), 22.Google Scholar
3. Ibid., 16, quoted from Sarmiento's De la educación popular (1849).Google Scholar
4. Ibid., 12, quoted from letters of Sarmiento to Mary Mann dated Nov. 27, 1865 and May 26, 1867.Google Scholar
5. Quoted in German García, Actualidad de Sarmiento, y otros ensayos bibliotecarios, Bahía Blanca, (Argentina, 1943), 9, 10.Google Scholar
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8. Facts in this paragraph are gleaned from Alberto Lasplaces, Vida admirable de José Pedro Varela, (Montevideo, 1928), 29–30; 51–77.Google Scholar
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