Excerpt from A Quarter Century of Public School Development Indeed, it is only through such a union of all the forces of society that the best results may be obtained from pub lic school work, or even that moderate expectations may be realized. While much of the criticism of the public schools that appears in the newspapers is captious and irrational, while many are disappointed in the schools because they expect too much, yet it is still pertinent to inquire what may reasonably be expected from the schools. 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.