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Excerpt from The Making of Our Middle Schools: An Account of the Development of Secondary Education in the United States In undertaking to write this book it was my desire to make some small contribution to the history of American civilization. The outcome of the effort I have not ventured to dignify with the high title of History. But, whatever its shortcomings, I am hopeful that it may, at least provisionally, fill a gap in the literature of American education. While the need of such a work was first suggested to me by experience with university classes, it was not specifically a text-book that I set out to write. It seemed desirable, rather, to prepare a book for two classes of readers: First, for such as are making or are disposed to make a serious study of American education in its process of development; and, secondly, for such "general readers" as may seek an acquaintance with our educational annals, for any of the thousand reasons which guide general readers in their choice of books. A work prepared for readers of these two groups seemed likely to make a better text-book than one intended to serve as a text-book and nothing else. In the time at my disposal it would have been possible to present a more adequate "intensive" study of some single stage of our educational development. This rather extensive work has been undertaken instead, with deliberate purpose. We seem to have reached a point, in our studies of American educational history, where a comprehensive view is needed, for the betterment of our special monographs, if for no other reason. Probably such a point is reached, sooner or later, in every branch of historical research. But such a work as this aims to be is needed, too, for the betterment of 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.