Excerpt from Some Phases in the Evolution of Ideals in Secondary Education Even less than twenty years ago waves of anti-high school sentiment swept occasionally from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Today the high school is firmly entrenched in the hearts of the American people. It is a fixed and indispensable portion of our great public school system, and receives liberal and cheerful support everywhere. 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.