 | Illinois. Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction - Education - 1911 - 908 pages
...passed in 1789 and authorizing the towns of that commonwealth to divide themselves into districts was "the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State. "t A study of the educational history of Illinois will show that the educational leaders of the State... | |
 | George Walter Fiske - Country life - 1912 - 354 pages
...thirty years ago. Long ago Horace Mann declared the law of 1789 which established the district system " the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the state." The school district is too small a unit either for school management or taxation. It is democratic... | |
 | George Walter Fiske - Sociology, Rural - 1912 - 336 pages
...thirty years ago. Long ago Horace Mann declared the law of 1789 which established the district system " the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the state." The school district is too small a unit either for school management or taxation. It is democratic... | |
 | George Walter Fiske - Country life - 1912 - 334 pages
...thirty years ago. Long ago Horace Mann declared the law of 1789 which established the district system " the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the state." The school district is too small a unit either for school management or taxation. It is democratic... | |
 | Arthur Henry Chamberlain - School management and organization - 1913 - 170 pages
...speaking of the evils of the district system as legalized in the Act of 1789 in Massachusetts, it was "the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted by the state." And Prince speaks in derogatory terms of the law of 1789 which at a late date developed... | |
 | Arthur Henry Chamberlain - School management and organization - 1913 - 172 pages
...speaking of the evils of the district system as legalized in the Act of 1789 in Massachusetts, it was "the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted by the state." And Prince speaks in derogatory terms of the law of 1789 which at a late date developed... | |
 | Clarence Ray Aurner - Education - 1914 - 466 pages
...was always at this point that all authorities fell back upon the declaration of Horace Mann when he said: "I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns...subject of common schools, ever enacted in the State [Massachusetts]." As a unit the congressional township was recommended as "none too large" for the... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1916 - 1054 pages
...privileges so extensive as to lead Horace Mann, in his tenth annual report, to declare the provision to be "the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State." The most disastrous legislation came, however, in 1801, when the district was granted the authority... | |
 | Frank Forest Bunker - Education - 1916 - 204 pages
...privileges so extensive as to lead Horace Mann, in his tenth annual report, to declare the provision to be "the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State." The most disastrous legislation came, however, in 1801, when the district was granted the authority... | |
 | Frank Forest Bunker - Education - 1916 - 210 pages
...privileges so extensive as to lead Horace Mann, in his tenth annual report, to declare the provision to be "the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State." The most disastrous legislation came, however, in 1801, when the district was granted the authority... | |
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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. 
