Horace Mann used to attend school for six weeks a year.

Franklin, Massachusetts, a city in the eastern part of the state's Norfolk County, is where Horace Mann was born. A farm that had been in his family for many generations was their property. In the early days of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of his relatives was among the original inhabitants. The Manns were destitute and had a difficult financial situation despite their familial background. His parents could only afford to pay for six weeks of the school year for him, and neither of them had much formal education.

Like many towns in New England at the time, Franklin did not have a good school. The instructor used physical abuse and terror to educate, and a typical school year was no longer than two months. What the pupils were able to learn as a consequence was either useless or inaccurate. He never attended school for more than 10 weeks in a calendar year until he was fifteen. Mann had to accept difficult employment that had an impact on his boyhood in order to support his family financially. After graduating from the local school, he continued his education at Williams Academy in Wrentham while working as a straw braider for Franklin's hat manufacturers.

He attended school for little more than six weeks every year, from the age of 10 to twenty. Franklin did have a modest library that contained books that Benjamin Franklin had contributed. It was the country's first public library, and Mann made full use of it by reading extensively during his adolescent years.

He worked hard in school from the time he was ten to twenty years old, and as a result, was accepted to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, despite his challenging childhood. His independence of thought was developed at Brown. It's one of the interesting facts about Horace Mann that he accomplished achievement by finishing his studies at Brown University in a record-breaking three years. Given the fact that Brown is an Ivy League school, that is a significant accomplishment.