Author: Henry Barnard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-14

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780259299004

Excerpt from Normal Schools and Other Institutions, Agencies, and Means Designed for the Professional Education of Teachers, Vol. 1: United States and British Provinces While Connecticut was discussing the subject, or slumbering over it, with the half patriarchal, half poetical dream, which is apt to come over us when we think of our venerable common school system, Massachusetts was acting not only in this but in other departments of educational improve ment, with a vigor and liberality which has placed her public schools over at least one half of her territory, at least a half century in advance of our -own in towns of the same wealth and population. N ew-york, too, whose school system as originally drafted by a native of Connecticut, was copied in its essential features from our own, under the lead of De Witt Clinton in 1826, commenced a series of improvements which resulted in Teachers Departments, District Libraries, Union Schools, County Inspection Teachers' Institutes, and a Normal School, which have done more, and are doing more now to develop the resources of the State than her gigantic system of railroads and canals. 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.