Many problems encountered in the 20th century also arise today. In June 1897, Walter Page wrote "The Forgotten Man" which addresses the difference in education between the North and South and, more importantly, the misleading separate but equal façade that black education was equal to white education. The fact is that education was funded differently in 1900 along racial and sexual lines. People were the underexploited resource and a new education system had to be created in order to exploit this resource (Page, Rose, 140). The new education system that was hailed was what we know today as the public school system. The new public school system changed from a family and religious system to one based on the Prussian system of centralized government-controlled teacher training, unified curriculum, public control and public financing, attendance compulsory, no corporal punishment and nationalized system introduced by Horace Mann by Charles Brooks. Horace Mann brought this idea to America. Mann simply wanted to build a strong country in the mid-1800s and saw education as key. In the first decades of the 21st century, the goal is the same. America's leading school district collected information on the most successful studies while monitoring best practices. Horace Mann set the stage for people like John Dewey and Stanley Hall as well as others (Sanders, 2010). Stanley Hall believed that schooling was too restrictive in creating conditions conducive to the productive education of children, so specific curricula, methods, materials, and data became a focus on teaching child-centered education. Hall's work was based on his "general psychonomic law" which proved that children learn at different stages. This helped educational theory... middle of article...... man states (1960): "In order to achieve any goal, teachers must develop a set of intermediate goals , who will direct their efforts in the classroom” (Rose, 126). Understand how to translate learned information into taught information with the goal of engaging a variety of student learners. This is the problem that educators have faced for centuries. Developing a young mind is a chore and there are a myriad of techniques that can be implemented. Teachers are not machines, so implementing techniques into useful classroom practice can only be effective to the extent of the educators' desire, understanding, intelligence, and personal beliefs. None of this can be tested, so unless a school chooses the right technique for proper assessment, it is possible to be competent educators while not mastering national or state standards..