Education, beyond all other devices, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of social machinery... The spread of education, by enlarging the cultivated class or caste, will open a wider area over which the social feelings will expand; and if this education should be universal and complete, it would do more than all things else to obliterate factitious distinctions in society." The antebellum reformer who asserted those beliefs was:
a. John Dewey
b. Lucretia Mott
c. Horace Mann
d. Theodore Dwight Weld
e. Mary Montessori
