Excerpt from Graduating System for Schools

Many excellent books have been written in the interests of popular education, and the author of this book has no desire to push aside any of them, but an earnest aim to fill a space occupied by none of them. A glance at the plan and scope of this work may, perhaps, give the reader a glimpse of some prominent points in which it differs from all other educational works.

The common branches are taken as a course of study, and all the plans and appliances of higher schools - annual examinations of graduating classes, granting diplomas, forming alumni associations, and publishing catalogues - are applied to country schools. This is simply the application of an old plan to a new purpose.

The common branches are considered as the tools of thought, and the teacher is encouraged to give his pupils constant practice in the use of these tools. He is encouraged to take the lead in the establishment of libraries, and in the circulation of newspapers and educational journals. He is encouraged to widen his work, and to elevate the school by giving the people outside of the school-room an intellectual uplift.

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