PUBLIC EDUCATION

IN RHODE ISLAND

BY

CHARLES CARROLL, LL. B., Ph. D.

INSTRUCTOR IN RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION
RHODE ISLAND NORMAL SCHOOL

COPYRIGHT, 1918

CHARLES CARROLL

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION,
THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND

THE TRUSTEES OF THE RHODE ISLAND NORMAL SCHOOL

PUBLIC EDUCATION

IN RHODE ISLAND

THIS STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SOCIAL CON-
SCIOUSNESS OF PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY FOR EDUCATION IN A

REPUBLIC IN WHICH INDIVIDUALISM WAS THE GUIDING

PRINCIPLE OF THOSE WHO FOUNDED IT AND

THOSE WHO SOUGHT ITS HOSPITALITY

IS DEDICATED TO

THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS