Excerpt from SchoolsThose who would write a book should have an excuse, preferably a good one. Ours is that we are interested in better school plants. We have had different kinds of experience with school plants. We have seen many of them and we have some ideas about them. Of one thing. We are sure: Ameri can communities need and deserve more and better school plants. Lots more and much better. We hope that those who read this book may have the urge to help America get them.We recognize that a new school plant is the business of a lot of different people. It's the business of the people of the community. They own it, use it and pay for it. Their legal representatives, the school board, are charged with the job of building it, maintaining it and operating it. Their superin tendent of schools and his staff actually live in it, guide and direct what goes on in it. It's the business, too, of the architects who design the plant and watch over its construction, of the engineers who translate their knowl edge and research into practical structures and systems, of the contractors and their workmen who give reality to the dreams. It certainly is the busi ness of the users - the boys and girls, men and women - Of this and future generations whose lives will be shaped through their relations with it. Yes, it is the business of a lot of different people. It is to all of them we write, and to others, in the hope that somehow they will be stimulated to dream grander dreams and work richer plans, that somehow they will create school plants which will be living realities of the best American life. Plants which will embody the best of American idealism. Plants in which people can grow and be happy. In which communities can be born. School plants which demonstrate what can happen when free men work together toward common, worthy ends.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.