Excerpt from A National System of Education The vital weakness of our educational system is the lack of any proper relation between primary and later forms of education. Elementary education has been regarded as a complete system in itself, capable of turning out its children at ages between 12 and 14 to enter upon the work of life. The code of the Board of Education has attempted a task at once impossible and grotesque, that of laying down a curriculum which would enable the children of the elementary schools to receive their educational equipment for life before reaching an age at which the children of wealthier parents are still in the nursery or the preparatory school. The divorce between our different classes of schools has had far-reaching results. What we have lost can perhaps best be appreciated by a reference to other countries where the whole educational system is a unity, as in parts of the German Empire, or parts of the United States of America. 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.