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Excerpt from A Few Thoughts on National Education and Punishments
In testing whether there be any surplus power in our educational apparatus, I consider what the best schools do under our present system. It is said by those who wish to decry the voluntary efforts which have led the way that the existing schools are bad, and that the ministers of religion have been the cause of detriment to them. I am far from thinking that all that has been done has succeeded in making education what it should be, and I doubt if School Boards will succeed better; but the question I wish to raise is, whether the present system, when fully carried out, with teachers, schools, and apparatus according to its assumed standard of excellence, is not in advance of its given work, and if so, capable of doing more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
