Excerpt from Manual for the Directors and Teachers of Common Schools in Pennsylvania: With Forms of Reports, Plans of Buildings, Etc; Etc It was on account of this portion of our population - ia many respects the most valuable in our state, - having in common use no language but a foreign 'one, that the impres sion was entertained, among strangers, that general education was neglected. A distinct and prevailing system was not, indeed, in operation; yet in no state were the young better, nor more generally instructed, than in our Commonwealth. In proof of this, the following exposition is presented; ex hibiting the statutory provisions, and the liberal appropria tions made by the legislature of Pennsylvania, in furtherance of education, both elementary and academic. The synopsis is prefaced by the proceedings of the colonial government in the premises. 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.