Excerpt from Hints for the Improvement of Village Schools and the Introduction of Industrial Work: Suggested by an Experiment Made in the Parish of Shipbourne, Kent The remarks I am about to Offer, have no plea for appearing in print, except upon this ground, viz. As being the result of an experiment made on a small scale in an ordinary agri cultural village of four hundred and forty inhabitants, and of several years' close observation of the habits and wants of the labouring classes. The plans and estimates appended, with the information rea specting government grants, may perhaps be of service to any school managers who are desirous to make a similar trial. 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.