Excerpt from Education in the City Schools of New York Not referring, for the present, to the physical, religious and-moral educationof the child, factors not less important, our task will be to inquire as to what education - or teaching - is doing for the mind of the child, what it ought to do, and what should not be done. To take a common sense View of the subject, education ought to prepare the child to be a man with mind and character well formed, and to be a use ful citizen of the State, and not only supply him with a certain amount of knowledge or information, but so strengthen his faculties of thinking and judging, that he may readily adapt to his use, and wisely. The knowledge which may come in his way, or which he may seek, and exercise his will so as to act according to his destiny, for his own benefit in life, as well as for that of his fellow-men. 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.