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Hardback, [PU: Forgotten Books], Excerpt from History of the United States: From 1492 to 1866, for the Use of Schools IN preparing this History of the United States, the author has endeav… More...

Hardback, [PU: Forgotten Books], Excerpt from History of the United States: From 1492 to 1866, for the Use of Schools IN preparing this History of the United States, the author has endeavored to meet the wants of our Common Schools as expressed to him by many of the prominent educators in this country, and as suggested by his own experience as a teacher. Some teachers instruct their pupils, when pre paring a history lesson for recitation, not to com mit the whole of the text to memory, but to (extract the meaning from it and to express that meaning in sentences of their own. When this is done, the pupils, except it be in some of the higher classes of our Academies and Universi ties, often neglect the events which are important and study those which are unimportant. They also frequently express what they do learn in ungrammatical sentences, or in sentences giving a very imperfect idea of the meaning intended. In order to obviate these difficulties, most teachers require their pupils to commit the text to mem. 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., History Of The Americas<