The Public School Buildings Of The City Of Philadelphia From 1853 To 1867 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the Committee Appointed to Visit the Public Schools of Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn and Boston to the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools of Baltimore, 1867 In the larger cities of the states in which public schools are most popular. There are higher developments than can be produced in rural districts, less densely populated and possess ing fewer facilities of progress. In those cities, the develop ment is most actively progressive, and in the generous rivalry that prevails among their school men, there is a commendable desire to communicate, as well as receive, the intelligence obtained by efforts to work alike a local and a general im provement. The purpose is universal among gentlemen so laboring and co-operating, that the knowledge attained by the experience of each, should become the property of all, thereby securing the greatest possible advantages from the labors of the respective localities, and rendering them common property to all the laborers and co-operators of all the locali ties. 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.