Excerpt from Free Schools: A Documentary History of the Free School Movement in New York StateThe accepted doctrine in America today is that all the property of the state must educate all the children of the state and that each child in the state has not only the inherent right to attend school but that, in the interests of the state itself, must attend. The history revealed through the sources given in this volume will show that New York has made a rich contribution to the establishment of this accepted American principle.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.