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Excerpt from The Dignity of the Common School Teacher's Mission: An Address Delivered Before the Minnesota Educational Association, Dec; 29, 1891 And then the boys and the girls who went with us, played with us, recited with us, sat with us upon the hard benches, read with us, spelled and mispelled with us, went to the head and then, to the foot, fired paper balls with us, whispered with us, sat on the easy seat with us, snow pelted with us, slid down hill with us, went to Spelling school with us, walked home with us, irted with us and exchanged notes and ap ples with us, in all the joyousness of country purity. Do boys and girls have so good a time now as we used to have around that old one-story brick school house which for sixty years has been the little wicket gate through which the children have entered the temple of education? God bless the old New Eng land school house! God bless the common school house everywhere! It is the poor boys friend and the nation's hope. 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."