An Experiment In Education The Ideas Which Inspired It And Were Inspired By It

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Excerpt from An Experiment in Education: Also, the Ideas Which Inspired It and Were Inspired by It In August of 1880, during a railway journey, I bad some conversation with a stranger on educational topics. Some features of the conversation being reported, they reached one who was sufficiently interested in new things to wish to see any reasonable thing tried, and was able to provide opportunity for the trial. As without the opportunity I could not have made the experiment, it is with no small degree of gratitude that I ask the reader to give to the maker of the opportunity - Mrs. Pauline Agassiz Shaw - due credit for whatever is helpful in the pages of this book. Acknowledgment is due also to the teachers who aided in the work, since it was their patient, loyal efforts to give the plan a fair and complete trial - each in the parts assigned to her - that largely contributed to the final results. These teachers were Miss Anna B. Sheldon, Nina Moore, Dora V. Williams, Clara F. Palmer, and Rachael C. Clarke. 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.