Excerpt from Forty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Education for the Year Ending June 26, 1896 People, but with the far more difficult problem of providing educational facilities for the children of every nationality under the sun, whose speech is in every language, whose parentage is of. Land and. Race totally at variance with the spirit of our institutions, whose habit of thought, political training and belief, and economic and social life are not only in harmony with, but often antagonistic to our own, and yet in modes of thought, forms Of speech and manner of living, and in all the ethical ways of life they are to be trained and fused into a full and patriotic acceptance of that which is valuable in our political and social life through the instrumentality of our public school system. Is it then a possibility, much less a probability, that we can in wisdom or safety allow a too generous provision for the schools, or plan too liberally for the education of. 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.