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Excerpt from Past and Present of Our Common School Education: Reply to President B. A Hinsdale, With a Brief Sketch of the History of Elementary Education in America
One more paragraph and we are done with prefatory remarks. It does not seem best to confine myself to a mere answer to Mr. Hinsdale. The evi dence of a few competent witnesses and a thorough refutation of his West Point argument would be sufficient to meet every material point in his address. But I shall avail myself of the opportunity to direct public attention to such facts in the history of the common schools as may be of service in their present and future management. The question. Of overcrowding the course of study being raised, it will be quite appropriate to show that that overcrowding comes from the undue expansion of those branches which are honored with the name of common school studies, not from the introduction of what are styled the higher branches of education. Generalt sherman's and Professor church's views on this subject, as quoted by President hinsdale, are superficial in the extreme.
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