Excerpt from The Minnesota Teacher and Journal of Education, Vol. 7: January-September, 1873 A true unwersity is the great educational necessity which remains to the American people. Since schools of the lower grade must always feed the higher, the country was under the necessity of beginning where the individual does - with the primary department. From that we have advanced rapidly up to the last step, and here we falter, not because our educators and patrons of education fail to appreciate the importance of universities, but because they mistake the way to get them. 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.