Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Education, 1866

Download or read book Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Education, 1866 written by Massachusetts Board of Education and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Education, 1866: Together With the Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board The establishment of this fund, thirty-one years ago, has been justly regarded as one of the most important educational meas ures ever adopted by the government of the Commonwealth. That it has been one of the most powerful instrumentalities in reforming and elevating the character of our schools there can be no question. It has been the means of securing from all the cities and towns the accurate and complete returns and reports, the great utility of which has already been noticed. It has been the means of securing obedience to important legislative require ments for the benefit of education, especially those respecting the length of schools, and the amount per scholar, to be raised by taxes; and while it has not been a substitute for local taxation, it has operated as a powerful agent in increasing it. And besides, it has afforded the means of defraying the expenses of all the institutions and agencies immediately under the supervision of the Board, and intended for the general benefit of 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.