Download or read book Lectures, and Annual Reports, on Education (Classic Reprint) written by Horace Mann and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures, and Annual Reports, on Education In preparing the present volumes of Mr. Mann's works for republication, I have gone back to his very first expositions of the deficiencies in the administration of our common-school system, not only because it is a matter of historical interest to note the commencements of the reform in which he was so actively engaged for twelve years, but because, on looking into the present condition of the schools, even in Massachusetts, in towns not twenty miles from Boston, the same defects may be observed in many cases, and in many respects, which at first attracted his attention. Schoolhouses, as well as churches, are still erected without the proper means of ventilation; seats are still arranged without reference to the eye-sight of the children; examinations of school-teachers, by School Committees, are still very imperfectly conducted, thus entailing upon schools teachers who are deficient either in knowledge, or in the power of governing upon right principles; and no amount of knowledge in a teacher is of much avail where a deficiency in this power exists. 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.