Excerpt from The National Teacher, 1874, Vol. 4: A Monthly Educational Journal Having furnished for the previous volume of this journal a series of papers setting forth many facts, with little comment, concerning German elementary school matters, a much clearer view of the relative merits and demerits of the German and American systems and practice will now be afforded to Ameri can teachers in general, by a comparative summary of what pertains to the subject; for in nothing is one more likely to be mistaken than in judging general systems and their results from here-and-there glimpses of particular facts. 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.