F. A. Siljestrom
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 472
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Excerpt from The Educational Institutions of the United States: Their Character and Organization Having been informed that my work on the educational institutions of the United States is about to appear in an English translation, and having been requested to write a Preface for this translation, I feel myself called upon to make the following observations. The fact that a book is about to appear before a public different from that for which it was originally intended, cannot but render the Author more than ever alive to its defects - such, at least, is the case with me in the present instance. Id writing for my own countrymen, I knew myself to be writing for a public almost totally ignorant of all matters relating to national education in the United States; and feeling that I could not possibly, in the work which I had planned, treat so wide a subject in so full and complete a manner as it deserved, yet being anxious to give a general exposition of the whole, I limited myself on several essential points to a few short notices only, hoping that either I myself or some other writer might on a future occasion have an opportunity of filling up the gaps which I left open. 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.