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Excerpt from Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of New Jersey, for the Year 1849: Read January 16, 1850 That the most unceasing care, vigilance, and unanimity of the state should be bestowed upon our public schools, cannot for a moment be doubted. They are the source from whence we are to expect the educated mind, which should direct, and the virtue which should preserve our free institutions. Let them, then, be kept free from all unholy and perverting in u chees; let them not only be made open to all, but worthy the acceptance and accommodation of all; so that all our children may be educated, as well in fear of the Lord, as in the desire of wisdom. Let the state consider all the children whom her soil maintains as entitled equally to her fostering care; let her public schools be places, within whose doors all dis tinction of sect, rank, or station vanishes; let the children learn in youth a lesson which will be forced upon them in later life, that, in this country, every thing depends upon self exertion, and, as in school, all knowledge and all honours de pend upon themselves, and the avidity with which they avail themselves of the advantages placed before them, so in after life all success in business, all elevation in position, depends upon themselves, and the proper direction they may give to their mental and moral energies. If such schools are esta blished, and with such care and oversight, can it be doubted that the general tone of society will be improved, and the benefits felt in all our relations, civil, religious, and political? And, if so, can it be doubted that the legislature which shall provide and sustain them, will be entitled to, and will receive, the grateful thanks of the thousands who now, deprived of the light of science, look up to, them for light amid surround ing darkness. 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."