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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut: Presented to the General Assembly, May Session, 1875, Together With the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board The Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Education is herewith presented. The past year has been one of marked progress in our pub lic schools. Statistics can show but one phase of them, and cannot distinctly indicate that improvement in their quality which is the most valuable kind of progress. Yet the advance which the statistics of the last year reveal is' most gratifying. In nearly every particular there has been essential improve ment. Never before has so large a preportion of the children of the State been taught in these schools. The amount paid for teachers' services exceeded a million dollars. The sum raised and expended for the.schools largely surpassed that of any former year. This increase was derived from taxation. The period covered by these statistics corresponded almost exactly with the first twelve months of the panic in financial affairs. It is no small honor to the people of the State that at a time of exceptional stringency in money matters they have provided more liberally for popular education than at any for mer period. They have thus shown that they hold fast the faith of their fathers in universal intelligence, and that how ever they may differ upon other subjects, upon this the great majority of them are essentially agreed. At a time when the common school system of our country is exposed to violent and persistent assaults, this incidental evidence that the people of Connecticut heartily believe in it is especially valuable. Ten years have now elapsed since the Board of Education was constituted. This is, therefore, a fit occasion for reviewing the record of the past decade, and noting what changes have occurred. The following table, giving a comparative view of certain items from the reports of 1865 and 1875, shows some of these changes. 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.