Excerpt from Educational Survey of Bulloch County, Georgia, Vol. 4 Everything about the school should be beautiful, clean and wholesome. The sanitation should be perfect. The place where children go to prepare for life and gain strength for its duties should not be a hotbed for the germs of disease and death. That the time in school may be used to best advantage, the child should be under the most favorable conditions. No one does his best work otherwise. Since ideals formed in childhood from its environment and the daily associations go with us through life, the cleanliness and beauty of schoolhouses and grounds are more powerful than all other agencies in determining the cleanliness and beauty of private homes and public buildings in the community where the children live as grownup men and women. The repulsive impressions of ugliness, dirt and disease accumulating from day to day drive children from school. The attractiveness of beauty, cleanliness, sweetness and comfort increasing from day to day is more powerful in bringing the child and all its interests to school, and keeping it there, than any attendance laws can ever be. 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.