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The Price of Human Capital  

Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe ▪ Summer 2011

In his oft-quoted Fifth Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education (1841), Horace Mann sought to popularize the idea that education had individual as well as collective economic benefits. This report became one of the most well-known of Mann’s twelve …



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