Excerpt from Nicholas Comenius: Or Ye Pennsylvania Schoolmaster of Ye Olden Time IN the reminiscences of Nicholas Comenius, . The aim has been to present a faithful picture of conditions in school life, which during the past forty years have come within the observation and experience of the writer but which now exist only in memory. 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.