Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Excerpt from Twentieth Annual Report of the Board of Education, Together With the Twentieth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board In submitting to the legislature their Twentieth Annual Report, the Board Of Education have nothing new to propose. The educational policy and system of the State may now be regarded as settled, at least for the present. For nearly two hun dred years our system of free schools was sustained directly by the people, without special care or direct aid from the government. The people were then homogeneous; the sentiment in favor of education was universal; deficiencies in the schools, when they existed, were Often supplied by instruction in the family and if there was little completeness of system or perfection of detail, yet the results were worthy of all praise. 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.