Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With The, Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the BoardThere is, besides, a heartiness of feeling in the minds of the community, which, though it is not all that could be desired, augurs well for the future. A great point was gained when the public attention was effectually directed to this subject. An earnest consideration of its importance awakened, at once, an interest in it, excited a spirit of inquiry, provoked discus sion, elicited truth, and induced those who had differed in matters of mere form to unite, with a common zeal, in the accomplishment of a common object.The reports of the school committees of the various towns in the Commonwealth are a good index of the state of public feeling. A volume of Abstracts, for the year 1845 - 6, prepared with great care by the Secretary of the Board, has just been published. To an attentive examination of the work, the attention of the Legislature is respectfully invited. As a record of the opinions of those, who, from time to time, are supposed to be best acquainted with our system of education.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.