Innovators and "Makers" of public schools

Each of these innovators had a large impact on the development of our public education system today. Although some of them had a bigger impact on the system, they all had a positive effect on the way our schools are run. From improving teachers to building better school buildings to finding ways to effectively manage schools and classrooms, these people made their marks on our educational system. The makers portion of these i think did have an impact, but i think a lot of the information in that website was misconstrued by the maker of the website and the writer of the book.

The biggest innovator or public schools listed in this site is obviously Horace Mann. Although he was not an educator, he could see the need to improve our our public schools. He saw the need to lengthen the school year to longer than just during the winter. He also saw the need to train and pay teachers better so they could educate students to a higher level. The school buildings he also saw needed improving. He developed the state board of education in Massachusetts and became the secretary of it. During his time there he successfully pushed for a 6 month school year, teacher training facilities, and money for higher teacher pay, school supplies, and school construction. This movement eventually moved on through the rest of the states in the country.

The maker i will choose is Henry Ford. He is the king of making things more efficient; his assembly line showed this. Although he probably had an effect on better efficiency in education i do not think he negatively influenced it.

The differences in innovators and makers were the way they affected education. Innovators directly affected education by making obvious improvements on things were run in schools. Makers passively influenced education by how they expected their employees to act and work while on the job. The information presented about the makers in this website is totally misconstrued.