Word: worshipfulrress
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...public education in the 19th century prompted John Dewey to call him "the greatest of the American prophets of education in and for democracy." In a new biography (Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody; Little, Brown; $5), Mrs. Louise Hall Tharp is too close to the trees of worshipfulrress to see clearly the forest of Mann's contribution. But her book is worth reading, if only as a reminder that Horace Mann was a titan in the field of educational statesmanship...
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