Excerpt from National Education: Teaching or Training? Answers to the great question which appears on the title page have filled many a volume, and have been the theme of our most accomplished orators on the platform, at the bar, and in the senate; and yet it must be acknowledged that the whole expositions separately and combined have not proved so satisfactory or so explicit as to receive universal approval. All seem to agree in prescribing education as a cure for the evils of society, and yet we scarcely meet with two pera sons who agree as to what education actually is, or what is meant by the term. It seems to mean' anything and everything. 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.