Excerpt from Forty-Four Years of the Education Question, 1870-1914: The Story of the People's Schools Simplified and Explained It is intended to describe in popular language, free from technicalities and with substantial accuracy, all that has been done in moulding our educational system up to the present time. The evidence and authorities quoted consist of Parliamentary debates and reports on the various Acts or Bill, reports and quotations from newspapers, magazines, etc. Facts and figures are given, as a rule, from Parlia mentary returns or standard works of reference, and the aim has been to give a fair and impartial account of the present educational position. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.