Excerpt from The American Journal of Education, 1878, Vol. 3: Entire Series, Volume XXVIII The following is an outline of the Plan for the increase and dill'usion of knowl edge, ' of education, and especially of popular education, and measures for in improvement through the Smithsonian Institution, or the American Association for the Advancement of Education, prepared by Mr. Barnard. 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.