Excerpt from The Public and Its School: A Statement of the Means of Finding What the Intelligent Public Expects of Children and How a School System May Be Managed to Deliver the Goods There is only one William McAndrew and he is something different every time he comes to the bat. We were of those who were not easily reconciled to his leaving the Washington Irving High School. It seemed as though he was the last man in the world to be harnessed to the inevitable treadmill work of a great city supervisory system. William McAndrew is a genius, first, last, and all the time. He thinks, acts, writes, speaks as a genius. He has criticised traditions mercilessly. When he lets himself loose with his pen, no one knows what he is to hit or what fragments will remain after he has hit a tradition. What could such a man do with the responsibility of leadership in a district with 100,000 children, more or less! Well, what did he do? With this query in mind we turned with keen interest and some anxiety to his first report upon the schools of Brooklyn, just published by the New York Board of Education. Imagine our delight at finding McAndrew, William McAndrew, fiercest of critics, corralling all critics of the schools in Brooklyn, taming them, harnessing them, and making them pull together like a trained team. "It takes a rogue to catch a rogue," and it evidently required a critic to tame and harness, for team work, the critics of Brooklyn. Nowhere else in professional or profane literature can there be found as valuable a summary of criticism and remedies as in this report. 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.