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Horace Mann believed education must cultivate the **“whole person”**—developing students’ physical, intellectual, and moral capacities together—so they could challenge injustice and lead social change. At Antioch he insisted on coeducation, the admission of Black students alongside white students, scholarships for the poor, and the pairing of scientific thinking with moral values. He rejected sectarian dogmatism in favor of a universalist ethic and urged graduates to fight “the disabilities of poverty,” “the wickedness of oppression,” and “the Godlessness…of bigotry,” famously charging them to **“be ashamed to die until you win some victory for humanity.”** Source: The Antiochian – Spring 2018 Want a quick summary of that piece? Just ask.