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" I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State. "
Annual Report of the Board of Education Together with the ... Annual Report ... - Page 15
by Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1866
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The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of ...

Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1849 - 296 pages
...of 1789, the germ of which may be found in the Province Law of 8 Geo. 1, ch. 1, (Anc. Ch., p. 666,) authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...
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Annual Report of the Board of Education, Volumes 13-16

Education - 1850 - 718 pages
...district system. It was not without due consideration that my predecessor, in his Tenth Report, said : " I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State." The justness of the above observation is illustrated every day by the evils which are forcing themselves...
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Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of ...

Wisconsin. Dept. of Public Instruction - 1858 - 866 pages
...indulged, it is some consolation to reflect that they, too, will be harnessed to the car of improvement. " I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...
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Annual Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Common Schools and ...

Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1858 - 624 pages
...to reflect that they, too, will be harnessed to the car of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...
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Annual Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Common Schools and ...

Education - 1858 - 878 pages
...improvement. ". I consider the, law 0/1789, authorizing tenons to divide themselves into district«, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...
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Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin: Being the Reports of the Various ...

Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1859 - 1284 pages
...to reflect that they, too, will be harnessed to the car of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...subject of Common Schools', ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...
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A History of the Town of Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, from 1669-1859

George Faber Clark - Norton (Mass.) - 1859 - 658 pages
...Massachusetts, considers the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, as " the most unfortunate law, on the subject of common schools, ever enacted in the State." l I can find no report of this committee. They probably reported favorably to the project ; for, Feb....
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Annual Report of the Board of Education Together with the ..., Volume 23

Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1860 - 496 pages
...law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into school districts, Horace Mann " considers the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in this State." This feature in our schools is being abolished in many towns deeply interested in the...
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Public Documents of Massachusetts, Issues 1-7

Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1861 - 970 pages
...1789, the germ of which may be found in the Province Law of 8 George I., chap. 1, (Anc. ch., p. 666,) authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...unfortunate law, on the subject of common schools, over enacted in the State." It should ever be remembered, however, that the Act of 1789 was innocent...
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Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut to the Governor ...

Connecticut. Board of Education - 1866 - 258 pages
...clogged the progress of educational improvement in the towns where it has been suffered to remain. Reason and fact alike condemn it as a fruitful source of...less decided in pronouncing it a deleterious element in the system. Dr. Sears, who devoted the greater part of an able report to the exposition of its evils,...
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