Excerpt from The Teacher's Manual: Being an Exposition of an Efficient and Economical System of Education Suited to the Wants of a Free People I. To show the inequality, inefficiency, and wasteful ness of our present system of education: or, to use the words of the motto to the title, to show that it is a mere dead letter, and cause it to own itself dead, and drop, piecemeal, into dust, so as to enable its living spirit, freed from this, its charnel house, to arise on us, with new healing on its wings.' 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.