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Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board In presenting to the legislature their Eighteenth Annual Report, the Board of Education beg leave to express their growing conviction, that the educational interests of the State, in their influence upon its future prosperity, surpass all others. No State can be in a thriving condition, that does not adopt measures to prevent her youth from growing up without an ability to read and write and to transact the ordinary business of life. If the people are poorly educated, and their minds undisciplined, there will be a lack of enterprise; the mechanic arts, manufactures and commerce, will languish, and no improvements will be made in agriculture. Urged by the conviction that our system of Free Schools must not only be sustained, but be made more and more efficient, we have endeavored to carry out the enactments of the legislature and to keep the people reminded of the fact that our power and influence in the sisterhood of States depend more upon the mental cultivation of the people, than upon the extent of our territory, or the number of its inhabitants. At a meeting of the Board in January last, arrangements were made.for carrying into effect the Act of April, 1853, in reference to State Scholarships. The whole State was divided into forty sections, equal to the number of senators. Each senatorial district was divided into as many sections as it sends senators to the legislature. 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.