The Address and Journal of Proceedings of the National Educational Association, Session of the Year 1873, at Elmira, New York (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Address and Journal of Proceedings of the National Educational Association, Session of the Year 1873, at Elmira, New York Congress, and it is able to-day to bear the strain of more school-houses in the late rebellious states of our Union, because there are in a strictly illiterate condition, and the public mind is largely conscious, by the experience of the last ten years, what may result from ignorance and arrogance in a country professedly free. We are here to-day to ascertain what has already been done, and what is now in progress, and what we may reasonably expect in relation to the future. Justice and equity demand that the magni tude of the educational wants of the Southern States, and its intrinsic import ance to the whole country, be laid before the public mind, from time to time, that men every where may understand that the education of the mass is indis soluble from a healthy condition of free government. 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.