The English Elementary School Some Elementary Facts About It

Author : A. W. Newton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330445891
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The English Elementary School Some Elementary Facts About It written by A. W. Newton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Elementary School Some Elementary Facts About It In writing this book I have had a very humble aim. Much information as to elementary education is floating about, but it is often rather out of reach; it is to be found in official documents, various periodicals, and people's memories; my endeavour has been to embody some of it in a convenient and semi-permanent form. The Blue-books contain a great deal of interesting matter, but they seldom find their way into non-official hands. They can, of course, be ordered through any bookseller, but booksellers do not keep them on sale, and the public are unfamiliar with them. The blue covers soon wear out, and all Blue-books, except the very smallest, are apt to come unsewn, and break in two. The compilers generally write for experts, so far as they can be said to write for anybody except themselves. They do not begin at the beginning of anything, so to speak, but take for granted much that the ordinary reader does not know, and consequently they puzzle him. They are dull, because they have to write in the official language, and with official caution and reticence. They cannot pass judgment on persons with whom their Department has relations, or utter opinions on any point the Department regards as controversial. Lastly, the Blue-book is apt to be indigestible, because it contains, along with matter of public interest, a great deal which is printed merely for administrative purposes. The annual volumes of the old Education Department used to exhibit glaring examples of this fault. 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.