 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1887 - 450 pages
...Mr. Mann said, " 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." By act of 1850 towns were directed how to pro- Disposition of 1 • T • e ^1 i iu • '.L... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1849 - 306 pages
...Law of 8 Geo. 1, ch. 1, (Anc. Ch., p. 666,) authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, 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... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 718 pages
...opinion in all matters connected with our Common School system, is entitled to the highest respect, " the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State." We will not stop to consider what benefits might have resulted from it at the far distant period... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1858 - 624 pages
...of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, 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. Dept. of Public Instruction - 1858 - 866 pages
...of improvement. " 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. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration... | |
 | Education - 1866 - 684 pages
...Secretary, said of it : 'I consider the law of 1 789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in this State.' His successors have been no less decided in pronouncing it a deleterious element of the... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1859 - 1284 pages
...of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, 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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1860 - 464 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. 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... | |
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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. 
