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Excerpt from Forty-First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools, to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: For the Year Ending Dec; 31, 1869 It is especially proper therefore, that our Educational interests should be so protected and fostered, that they may not lose popular favor; but continue to be, as they have heretofore been, the basis of whatever great success has been obtained in the other callin gs of life. The best and most useful citizens are almost always the best educated men not educated in the sense of having great scholastic learning, but in those branches of knowledge, which fit them specially for the active and practical duties of life. An ignorant and uneducated boy almost invariably becomes a vicious and dangerous man. He may not actually be a criminal, viola ting the laws of the community in which he lives, and receiving the punishment commensurate with his crime; but he is an enemy to that development'and progress of society which are essential to its happiness. If the mind and heart are properly educated in early life, there is certainly not the same danger of depraved manhood, as if there had been a neglect of early training. The records of all criminal institutions show that the largest portion of their inmates are uneducated, and that those who are most intelligent, are the easiest to reform. These facts should stimulate every one to earnest efforts for the diffusion of useful knowledge, and a cordial co-operation with those who are officially engaged in this work. If crime can be pre vented or diminished by education, it is far better for legisla tors to appropriate public money freely, and devote their time to this purpose, than to legislate for the punishment of vice which might have been prevented. In several States. 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.