Some Foreign Educational Surveys (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Some Foreign Educational Surveys The following are among the more noteworthy of the English sur veys; it will be observed that England has been especially fortunate In securing the services of her ablest public men on her educational commissions and in generally having as chairman the ablest and most eminent man of the realm. Report from the Select Committee on the Education of the Lower Orders, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, March 17, 1818. 2 vols.; vol. 1 - 324 pages; vol. 2 - 495 pages. Testimony was taken by the committee, with Henry Brougham in. The chair; and circular letters (questionnaires) were also sent out, especially to clergymen, concerning which the committee writes. 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.