Excerpt from To the People of Alabama: An Address by the Alabama Education Committee Indeed, the State should do its part, but the history of education elsewhere proves conclusively that it is an unwise and hurt ful policy to look to that source for every thing needed. Wherever such a policy has prevailed, the people have come gradually to rely upon the general government for the performance of duties that should be regard ed as individual or local. If we would meet the obligation that presses upon us, we must modify this policy. 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.