Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut: Presented to the General Assembly, January Session, 1881; Together With the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board The State Normal School is doing its work as well as it can under the restrictions and inconveniences to which it is sub jected. These present a large obstacle to its successful opera tion, and they ought to be removed. Every inducement should be held out to those who propose to make teaching a profession, to prepare themselves thoroughly. The advan tages which the Normal School should be able to offer ought to be such as to attract all the earnest men and women who are to teach. The school ought to be made as nearly perfect as possible. There is no economy in going through a form of preparing teachers for their work. Why withhold from the Normal School the additional appropriation which would make it thoroughly effective? Of course a good workman does good work with any tools, but there is great loss of time and strength in the use of poor ones, and skill is applied where it is least felt. And certainly our Normal School would pay better if it were put into a condition where the. Skill, energy, and patience of those who have it in charge would be most effective. In view of these facts, we would press upon your consideration the suggestion that the time has come when we should erect a new building for the use of the Normal School. It is believed that the citizens Of New Britain are disposed to help in this matter, at least so far as to pay a good price for the present building. The last Legislature constituted a commis sion to consider this question, and doubtless you will be guided by their recommendations, but we wish to add the weight of our commendation if they should report in favor of building. Moreover, we think that such a proposal will be received with favor throughout the State. 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.

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut: Presented to the General Assembly, May Session, 1871, Together With the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board Money expended for new School Houses, Money expended for School Libraries, Taxable property per child in each town, Per centage of property paid for Public Schools in each town, Amount paid per child for Public Schools in each town, Per centage of children in Public Schools in each town, Per centage of average attendance in winter in each town, Extracts from School Visitors' Reports, List of towns from whose Reports extracts are herein printed, List of School Visitors in every town. 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.

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut: Presented to the General Assembly, May Session, 1875, Together With the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board The Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Education is herewith presented. The past year has been one of marked progress in our pub lic schools. Statistics can show but one phase of them, and cannot distinctly indicate that improvement in their quality which is the most valuable kind of progress. Yet the advance which the statistics of the last year reveal is' most gratifying. In nearly every particular there has been essential improve ment. Never before has so large a preportion of the children of the State been taught in these schools. The amount paid for teachers' services exceeded a million dollars. The sum raised and expended for the.schools largely surpassed that of any former year. This increase was derived from taxation. The period covered by these statistics corresponded almost exactly with the first twelve months of the panic in financial affairs. It is no small honor to the people of the State that at a time of exceptional stringency in money matters they have provided more liberally for popular education than at any for mer period. They have thus shown that they hold fast the faith of their fathers in universal intelligence, and that how ever they may differ upon other subjects, upon this the great majority of them are essentially agreed. At a time when the common school system of our country is exposed to violent and persistent assaults, this incidental evidence that the people of Connecticut heartily believe in it is especially valuable. Ten years have now elapsed since the Board of Education was constituted. This is, therefore, a fit occasion for reviewing the record of the past decade, and noting what changes have occurred. The following table, giving a comparative view of certain items from the reports of 1865 and 1875, shows some of these changes. 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.

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut: Presented to the General Assembly, May Session, 1872, Together With the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board Schools Visited - The school registers show that parents and friends of education in some of the districts manifest interest in the schools by visiting them, while in others there is an obvious lack of such needed encouragement. 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.