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EDUCATION IN EUROPE: -

BEING AN ACCOUNT

OF THE

ORGANIZATION, ADMINISTRATION, INSTRUCTION, AND STATISTICS

OF

PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF DIFFERENT GRADES

IN

THE PRINCIPAL STATES.

BY HENRY BARNARD, LL. D.,

SUPERINTENDENT OF COMMON SCHOOLS IN CONNECTICUT.

SECOND EDITION.

HARTFORD:

PUBLISHED BY FREDERICK B. PERKINS,

No. 10, POST-OFFICE BUILDING.

1854.

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EDUC.
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PREFACE.

THE following pages were, in part, published in 1851, under the title of "Normal Schools and other Institutions, Agencies and Means designed for the Professional Education of Teachers." They were prepared from observations made during a tour in Europe in 1835-6, and from documents subsequently collected, from time to time, to assist the undersigned in maturing his own views and plans for the improvement of common schools, and particularly in devising modes of operating beneficially for the advancement of the teachers' profession, in the States of Rhode Island and Connecticut.

The author has availed himself of a recent visit to Europe, to extend his inquiries, and collect additional documents, not only respecting the training of teachers, but in every departpartment of the educational field, and particularly respecting agricultural schools, and institutions for juvenile delinquents. The results are embodied in this new edition of his original work, the title of which is changed, so as to convey a more adequate idea of its contents.

To the results of his own observations and study of documents, he is able, by permission of the gentlemen named, to add freely from the elaborate and valuable reports of Prof. Calvin E. Stowe, D. D., to the Legislature of Ohio, in 1837, of President Alexander Dallas Bache, LL.D., to the Trustees of the Girard College of Orphans in Philadelphia, in 1839, of Hon. Horace Mann, LL. D., to the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1846, and of Joseph Kay, Esq., Traveling Bachelor of the University of Oxford, in 1850, on the subjects treated of in this volume. Without claiming any

thing for his own labors, the undersigned feels authorized in saying that the present edition contains more reliable statistics and fuller information respecting the whole subject of public education in Europe, than can be found in any one volume in the English language, or in any number of volumes easily accessible to any large number of American teachers and educators.

It embodies information which can be made available in organizing new, and improving existing systems of public instruction, and particularly institutions and agencies, designed for the education of teachers in every state of the Union. Its value does not consist in conveying the speculations and limited experience of the author, but the matured views and varied experience of wise statesmen, educators, and teachers, in perfecting the organization and administration of educational systems and institutions, through a succession of years, under the most diverse circumstances of government, society, and religion.

The experience and views of the undersigned, as to the organization and administration of a system of public education adapted to the peculiar circumstances and wants of our own country, will be presented to the public in the course of another year, under the title of "National Education; or, Contributions to the History and Improvement of Common Schools, and other means of Popular Education in the United States."

HENRY BARNARD.

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