Excerpt from The Development of Primary and Secondary Public Education in Michigan: A Historical Sketch Excellent histories of the University and of higher education in Michigan have been published, but no connected history of the development of primary and secondary education in the State has appeared. Such history is found only in multifarious reports and other documents of a more or less permanent character. The lack of any history of this kind has been a matter of regret and inconvenience, and occasionally of reproach to the commonwealth. In a correspondence with the lamented Dr. B. A. Hinsdale, a short time previous to his death, he expressed his sense of the want of such a work, and urged some reasons why the present writer should undertake to supply it. Until that time I had formed no definite purpose of preparing this volume. Some circumstances, however, favored the undertaking. In the performance of my official duties, it had been necessary for me to acquaint myself with the school laws and educational institutions of the State; and in the preparation of histories of the normal school, of the institute work, of the educational funds, and of the State Teachers' Association, I had collected a considerable amount of material for such a history, and had discovered where still more material could be found. I have arranged this material in such form as, on the whole, seemed best adapted to the end in view. The plan adopted has necessitated occasionally a little repetition, and sometimes the separation of closely related matters. But it is believed that these disadvantages are not serious, and are more than compensated by offsetting advantages. 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.

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