Excerpt from A Christmas Address; Science and the Elementary Schools: Delivered at a General Meeting of the Teachers of the Cleveland Public Schools The modern, free elementary school has had a growth and extension which is phenomenal. It reaches out its kindly arms unceasingly and farther and farther to the world's children, and year by year it gains in strength and power and completeness. It is going to be the world's universal civic institution. 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.