. Essex county, , illustrated . N 1 1 ft. SLllnoi , SCHOOL. That this essential weakness of our common school system hasbeen apprehended by foreign educators, is shown by thefollow in;.;, from the valuable work of Hon. Francis .Vdams. Sec-retarv of the National of England, on the free schoolsystem of the Lnited Stales, in which he says: Although atlirst si;^lit the area of a school district may appear to be an un-important matter of detail, yet upon it, as the experience of thelnited States has proved, the efficiency of any school systemlargely d

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. Essex county, , illustrated . N 1 1 ft. SLllnoi , SCHOOL. That this essential weakness of our common school system hasbeen apprehended by foreign educators, is shown by thefollow in;.;, from the valuable work of Hon. Francis .Vdams. Sec-retarv of the National of England, on the free schoolsystem of the Lnited Stales, in which he says: Although atlirst si;^lit the area of a school district may appear to be an un-important matter of detail, yet upon it, as the experience of thelnited States has proved, the efficiency of any school systemlargely depends. The most formidable dilVicutly which system has encountered, has arisen out of this ques-tion. This is what is know n in the United Stales as the DistrictSystem. Wherever it still exists it is the subject of the mostbitter complaint and con<leinnation amongst scliool superin-tendents and oliicers. ? Most of the stales have, afler an extended trial of a districtsystem, le-organi/ed under the township plan,

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