Excerpt from Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools: Springfield, Mass., 1890 This partial disuse of the spelling book has been mis taken to mean that spelling is receiving less attention to-day than formerly in our schools, whilst, in fact, pupils receive fully twice as much training in this direction, if the writing of composition be included, as they received when spelling was taught exclusively from a spelling book. This is a change that was made long ago in the best schools of Prussia, and was advocated by Horace Mann in this state over forty years ago. It has, therefore, the merit of being neither a novelty nor an experiment. 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.