Excerpt from Joseph Lancaster Joseph lancaster and Andrew Bell each sprang from respectable poverty; each found his vocation in teach ing; each happened to re-invent a monitorial system; each was extravagantly vain Of his achievement; and each thought that he had earned an immortality Of fame. But the means which they took for ensuring that future ages should possess full knowledge Of the details Of their careers differ as widely as their characters and their circumstances. 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.