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=== Commemoration === [[File:Horace Mann2 1940 Issue-1c.jpg|thumb|180px|Mann on a 1940 stamp from the [[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States#Famous Americans Series of 1940|''Famous Americans'' series]]|alt=]] Many places around the world are named after Mann. Among them are more than 50 public schools in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Search for Public Schools - Search Results|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&InstName=Horace+Mann&SchoolID=&Address=&City=&State=&Zip=&Miles=&County=&PhoneAreaCode=&Phone=&DistrictName=&DistrictID=&SchoolType=1&SchoolType=2&SchoolType=3&SchoolType=4&SpecificSchlTypes=all&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-1|access-date=June 19, 2021|website=nces.ed.gov|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200633/https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&InstName=Horace+Mann&SchoolID=&Address=&City=&State=&Zip=&Miles=&County=&PhoneAreaCode=&Phone=&DistrictName=&DistrictID=&SchoolType=1&SchoolType=2&SchoolType=3&SchoolType=4&SpecificSchlTypes=all&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-1|url-status=live}}</ref> [[File:Horace_Mann_by_Emma_Stebbins_-_Boston,_MA_-_DSC05471.JPG|thumb|257x257px|[[Statue of Horace Mann]] (1863) by [[Emma Stebbins]]]] [[Statue of Horace Mann|Horace Mann's statue]] stands in front of the [[Massachusetts State House]] along with that of [[Daniel Webster]]. At Antioch College, a monument carries his quote, which has been recently adopted as the college motto: "Be Ashamed to Die Until You Have Won Some Victory for Humanity." The [[University of Northern Colorado]] named the gates to their campus in his dedication, a gift of the Class of 1910.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unco.edu/library/archives/arc_photohist_BldgsandGrounds_Central_Campus.htm |title=University History: A Photographic History of UNC |publisher=University of Northern Colorado |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041207/http://www.unco.edu/library/archives/arc_photohist_BldgsandGrounds_Central_Campus.htm |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> The [[Springfield, Illinois]]- based Illinois Education Association Mutual Insurance Company was renamed in honor of Mann in 1950 as the [[Horace Mann Educators Corporation]]. [[Pittsburg State University]] in [[Pittsburg, Kansas]], has a building named Horace Mann School. It currently houses the Student Welcoming Center. In [[Massachusetts]], public charter schools that are authorized by local school districts are known as Horace Mann charters. [[File:Horace_Mann_School_Main_Entrance_February_2012.jpg|thumb|180x180px|[[Horace Mann School|Horace Mann]] School, the Bronx, New York City]] [[Brown University Graduate School]] awards an annual ''Horace Mann Medal'' to one of its alumni.<ref>{{cite web |title=Horace Mann Medal {{!}} Graduate School |url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/gradschool/about/awards/horace-mann-medal |website=www.brown.edu |access-date=June 6, 2022 |archive-date=May 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531172850/https://www.brown.edu/academics/gradschool/about/awards/horace-mann-medal |url-status=live }}</ref> At Diamond Fork Middle School, a Horace Mann celebration was held on May 4, 2011, the same day he was born.
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