Excerpt from Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston: 1872 The whole amount paid in salaries to teachers was or an average of about per teacher. The average cost per year for each pupil in the day schools was, for tuition, for all items, including school-houses and lots, care of build ings, school apparatus, etc., These figures show more plainly than any words can do the magnitude of the educational work of the city, and the responsibilities of the School Board. To provide suitably for the mental, and, so far as may be, for the moral training of nearly forty thousand children, is the great duty for the per'formance of which we are accountable to our fellow-citizens. The amount of money expended should not seem large, in consideration of the objects in view. Nor can it ever be smaller than at present. Not only the growth of the city, but the increase of general cul ture, and the demand for new branches and methods of instruction, forbid us to expect any diminution of our educational appliances, or of the expenditures to which they give rise. 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.