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Excerpt from Education for Life: A Country School Experiment Our school serves a large, scattered country district in the West Midlands. It is four miles from its little country town to the west, and on the cast a bus service along the main road, some half-mile distant, connects it with the outskirts of the Black Country, eleven miles away. Ex cept for a few brilliant children who obtain Scholarships to Secondary Schools, the scholars, on leaving, take up country occupations, mostly on the large farms in the neighbourhood. 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.