Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Maryland School Journal, Vol. 6: September, 1879 Why do I recall these things? Not simply to remind you that our public school system, as it exists in cities and other centres of dense population, had its root in the old and now almost-forgotten Lancasterian school; but rather that by re viewing the history of common school education from its birth to its present development, we may be able to derive help and encouragement in our plans for industrial education, and possibly even to forecast its future progress. We need to be reminded that this magnificent system of intellectual in struction, of which we are so justly proud, had within the memory of. Men now living an origin as obscure, a beginning as insignificant, a future as uncertain, a prospect as discour aging as the projected system of industrial education now has even in the eyes of its advocates. 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.