Excerpt from Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Public Schools of Rhode Island: Submitted Nov. 1, 1845 Public opinion will not remain long in advance of the law, and the public schools will attain only that degree of excellence and usefulness which a well informed, and widely enlisted public Opinion calls for. In the law, as it now stands, there are agencies which if vigorously and intelligently worked, cannot fail to keep the public mind informed and interested in all that concerns the organization and administration of the svstem, and the discipline and instruction of the schools. III. I. Defects in the laws relating to Public Schools as they were. 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.