Horace Mann
Published: 2017-01-16
Total Pages: 60
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Excerpt from The Common School Controversy: Consisting of Three Letters of the Secretary of the Board of Education, of the State of Massachusetts, in Reply to Charges Preferred Against the Board The agreement between the system of Mr. Girard and that which is in action here, as Implicated by our correspondent, lies in their both excluding Christianity as an essential element of education, in the training of children, leaving that to be procured when, and how it may. Now the Puritans, who founded the Com mon School system, had no such design. The aim of our law (now) is, says the Secretary's report, to secure as much Of religious instruction as rs compati-s' ble with religious freedom and what that is, in the esteem of those in authori ty, may be inferred from what has been said of the manner in which books are prepared for the reading Of our children. 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.