According to reformers like horace mann, education reform including state funded public schools was crucial to society because:
question 5 options:

a. the success of democracy depends up an educated population of citizens

b. children need someplace to be, and working in factories was too dangerous

c. families had to have both parents working so they had to have public education as a source of childcare

d. private education had been recently outlawed by the jackson administration and there were no schools remaining to educate children.