Excerpt from The New York Teacher, Vol. 15: A Monthly Journal of School and Home Education; From Oct. 1865, to Sept. 1866 There are few who do not feel this anti-progressive tendency of teaching, -who do not need an occasional waking up to what is going on in the educational world around 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.