Excerpt from Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board, 1893-1894 Only thirty-six per cent. Of the teachers in the public schools have ever attended a normal school, and only thirty per cent. Have graduated therefrom. Ever since the establishment of normal schools in Massachusetts (and the first one on the conti nent was organized in this State), it has been the uniform testi mony of their principals, past and present, that the demand for their graduates, as teachers, has far exceeded the supply. During the public hearing given by this Board, one year since, to the petitioners for more normal schools, the most noticeable feature of the occasion was the earnest desire, repeatedly ex pressed by the petitioners, for more trained teachers for their schools. When the four new normal schools are opened, the Commonwealth will have an equipment for meeting the demand for teachers, specially trained for their work, in larger measure than has been possible in the past. 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.