Excerpt from Some Thoughts About the School of the Future: A Sketch of the Solution Which Time Appears to Be Preparing for the Different Educational Questions of the Day The title which I have ventured to give to this little work seems to require a word or two of ex planation. I have adopted it merely for the pur pose of indicating the kind of education, and the kind of school-system which I conceive would most effectually meet the wants, and enable us to avail ourselves of the resources, of the present day. I cannot but think that the enlightened philanthrophy of the upper classes, and the rapid increase now taking place among the lower classes in all the chief elements of social and political power, - in their numbers, intelligence, wealth, and means for com bined action, - will lead to the creation of some such system; and that the character of the instruo tion given in our future schools will not be very dissimilar to that which I have sketched. Nor can I imagine any other way in which the management of the schools of a free country can be conducted. 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.