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Excerpt from The Law of the Public School System of the United States Our national greatness, and the permanence of our American government are to a great extent founded in our system of public schools. In these schools pupils learn patriotism and obedience to constituted authority to an extent untaught and unpracticed in many homes. The acquirement of knowledge is offered in a system which only enormous funds and the painstaking endeavors of selected instructors could make possible. As the State furnishes so it benefits. The child of today is the statesman of tomorrow. Competence is so general that no man is considered unreplaceable. But the State does not make scholars. It only offers the means of acquiring scholarship. The years of nurture by our government have created an almost unanimous desire for a college education, whereas in the earlier days the main educational desire was often expressed as an ability to "read, write and cipher." Parents have seen the folly of superficiality and are determined that their children shall be thorough. Improvement in educational matters has been gradual, hut aggressive. 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.