Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut: Presented to the General Assembly, January Session, 1881; Together With the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board The State Normal School is doing its work as well as it can under the restrictions and inconveniences to which it is sub jected. These present a large obstacle to its successful opera tion, and they ought to be removed. Every inducement should be held out to those who propose to make teaching a profession, to prepare themselves thoroughly. The advan tages which the Normal School should be able to offer ought to be such as to attract all the earnest men and women who are to teach. The school ought to be made as nearly perfect as possible. There is no economy in going through a form of preparing teachers for their work. Why withhold from the Normal School the additional appropriation which would make it thoroughly effective? Of course a good workman does good work with any tools, but there is great loss of time and strength in the use of poor ones, and skill is applied where it is least felt. And certainly our Normal School would pay better if it were put into a condition where the. Skill, energy, and patience of those who have it in charge would be most effective. In view of these facts, we would press upon your consideration the suggestion that the time has come when we should erect a new building for the use of the Normal School. It is believed that the citizens Of New Britain are disposed to help in this matter, at least so far as to pay a good price for the present building. The last Legislature constituted a commis sion to consider this question, and doubtless you will be guided by their recommendations, but we wish to add the weight of our commendation if they should report in favor of building. Moreover, we think that such a proposal will be received with favor throughout the State. 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.