Excerpt from Our Common School System To reduce the salaries of teachers to those of labor ers would in the first place materially lessen taxation and this is a result always welcome. But when the rank and the pay are those of laborers, the duty will of course devolve upon laborers. The schools will be taught by men and women who have the education and qualifications of dirt-shovellers and chambermaids. I say nothing against these classes. There is no dis grace in shovelling dirt or sweeping floors. The best men and women in the world have made these actions fine. But fitness for such work is not hard to get or rare to find and when you have decreed that you want in your schools only the very same materials as labor ers, and that your teachers shall be paid not a cent more than laborers, what have you a right to expect but that you shall have laborers for your teachers? 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.