Excerpt from The Accretive System of Developing Memory and Thought: Address Before the Cosmos Club, Jersey City, N. J., September 23, 1889Our youth enter the primary schools, there they are given certain tasks to learn 3 in order to pass into a higher class they are questioned to ascertain how much they re member their entrance into still higher classes is deter mined by their progress, or in other Words, by What they remember. On entering the intermediate schools they have to pass examinations again to exhibit how much they remember of their past studies, and their progress through the various classes of the intermediate schools is continually determined by tests of memory.To enter the high school they have another gauntlet of examinations to run - success in passing each of them being conditioned on the memory.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.