Excerpt from Wisconsin Journal of Education, 1877, Vol. 7: Organ of the State Teachers' Association and of the Department of Public Instruction The free school system of America, endeared to us by associations and results, is the gradual outgrowth of a conviction that has. 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.