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Excerpt from Normal Schools, and Other Institutions, Agencies, and Means Designed for the Professional Education of Teachers: Part I. United States and British Provinces; Part II. Europe The city of Philadelphia, whose system of public schools, made free by taxation on property, went into Operation only two years before Connecti cut passed a law exempting the people from the obligation of raising a tax on property for a portion of the expense of supporting common schools (thc most disastrous law ever placed on her statute book) - has now a system of public instruction from the Primary School for children four years of age, to the Normal School in which the female teachers of all her schools can be trained, maintained with a liberality, and embracing opportunities of an extended English, cltissical, and business education, which is free to all and practically enjoyed by the children of the rich and poor - of which we have no approach in any city of our State. 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.