Excerpt from The Art of Teaching School: A Manual of Suggestions for the Use of Teachers and School Authorities, Superintendents, Controllers, Directors, Trustees and Patrons of Public Schools and Higher Institutions of Learning; How to Establish, Organize, Govern and Teach Schools of All Grades<br><br>The State establishes public schools for the economical education of youth, in the element ary departments Of useful knowledge. These schools are supported by a general tax, and are for the use of all the people. Whenever, by systems of organization, by courses of study or by methods of instruction, their usefulness is impaired, the Object of the State is defeated, and the Commonwealth suffers injury. In some portions of the United States this defeat and this injury are already experienced. This book has been written in the belief that its contents will assist those, who are laboring, as school offi cers, teachers and patrons, to restore the system of public education to its normal life, and to make the public schools serve the ends for which they were established.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.