Excerpt from An Ideal School: Or, Looking Forward In the original classification adopted for this series of books, educational criticism occupies the second place; it includes the works relating to educational reform, criticisms on the present system, and books to a greater or less degree revolutionary in their tendencies. Some books of this class propose only what may be strictly called reform. The recommendations of other books, if carried out, would produce little less than a revolution in school matters. But all books written by earnest thinkers in the way of criticism on existing systems have their use in exciting thought in the minds of teachers who for the most part are following routine methods. It is not likely that more than five percent of new experiments initiated in education will succeed in establishing themselves as of value to educational methods; the remaining ninety-five percent will fail. It is so in new business ventures; even less than five percent of new business ventures can be said to prove financial successes. But the five percent of new experiments which succeed may add, and do add, enough of value to compensate for the waste involved in the other ninety-five percent of experiments. 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.