 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1849 - 296 pages
...of 1789, the germ of which may be found in the Province Law of 8 Geo. 1, ch. 1, (Anc. Ch., p. 666,) authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 718 pages
...the district system. It was not without due consideration that my predecessor, in his Tenth Report, said : " I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State." The justness of the above observation is illustrated every day by the evils which are forcing themselves... | |
 | Wisconsin. Dept. of Public Instruction - 1858 - 866 pages
...indulged, it is some consolation to reflect that they, too, will be harnessed to the car of improvement. " I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1858 - 624 pages
...to reflect that they, too, will be harnessed to the car of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 878 pages
...improvement. ". I consider the, law 0/1789, authorizing tenons to divide themselves into district«, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1859 - 1284 pages
...to reflect that they, too, will be harnessed to the car of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...subject of Common Schools', ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration... | |
 | George Faber Clark - Norton (Mass.) - 1859 - 658 pages
...Massachusetts, considers the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, as " the most unfortunate law, on the subject of common schools, ever enacted in the State." l I can find no report of this committee. They probably reported favorably to the project ; for, Feb.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1860 - 496 pages
...law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into school districts, Horace Mann " considers the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in this State." This feature in our schools is being abolished in many towns deeply interested in the... | |
 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1861 - 970 pages
...1789, the germ of which may be found in the Province Law of 8 George I., chap. 1, (Anc. ch., p. 666,) authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...unfortunate law, on the subject of common schools, over enacted in the State." It should ever be remembered, however, that the Act of 1789 was innocent... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1866 - 258 pages
...verdict against it. Horace Mann, at the close of his long term of service as Secretary, said of it : 'I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to...subject of common schools ever enacted in the State.' His successors have been no less decided in pronouncing it a deleterious element in the system. Dr.... | |
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I consider the law of 1789 .... authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the state. 
