Lecture Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction

Excerpt from A Lecture Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction: At Concord, New Hampshire, August 26, 1863 The schools in our towns and cities differ in nothing more than in the skill, thoroughness, and efficency of their supervision. This one agency is the most common cause of other differences. The schools themselves tell the practised observer the style of this supervision, as readily as a house does that of an architect. My observations in visiting thousands of schools throughout Massachusetts, and many in twelve other States, have clearly proved to my mind the wisdom of maintaining a Superintendent in all our cities and large towns, who shall devote his whole time to the care and improvement of the schools. 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.