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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781331141723

Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools in Connecticut: Together With the Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board; May, 1840 The Board, at its first meeting in June, secured the continued services of Henry Barnard 2d. Esq., a member of the Board, as a Secretary. They have much satisfaction in adding, that this gentleman has, during the last year, as heretofore, prosecuted the important objects confided to him, with the greatest industry faithfulness and ability. Considering, moreover, the magnitude and complexity of the evils to be remedied in our school system and the fixed habits and institutions of society, we find mush cause for congratulation at the success with which his labors have thus far been crowned. By his well-directed zeal and energy, public attention, long dormant, has been awakened to new views of the importance of improvements in the system of school education; an immense amount of valuable information on this subject, has been spread before the community, both by his personal addresses, and through the medium of the Common School Journal, published under his immediate superintendence; benevolent and patriotic citizens in various parts of the State, have been led to examine the subject with an unwonted interest; plans of improvement resulting from his own observations and reflections, or gathered from the experience of sister States, or foreign countries, have been suggested, and in various instances, adopted; and, in short, a beginning has been made in the great work of maturing and reforming our system of school instruction, which, if carried out, will, as we confidently hope, result in exalting the intellectual and moral character of the rising and all future generations. 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.