CHAPTER X 



THE EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH 

 ORGANIZATIONS OF CALIFORNIA 



IT is obviously beyond the scope of this writing to 

 undertake discussion of the development of general 

 education in California either from historical or peda- 

 gogical points of view. Those desiring to view the 

 subject from these angles will find both facts and 

 philosophy in the ample literature of the subject.* 

 General characterization of the spirit and achieve- 

 ments of the California public school system, which 

 extends from the most remote district school, through 

 an ascending series of primary, grammar and high- 

 schools to the University of California and which 

 has also side-lines through a full complement of nor- 

 mal and technical schools and institutions for those 

 either physically or mentally deficient, all under the 

 superintendence of the State and directly supported 

 by it, will be enough to assure the reader that Cali- 

 fornia has from the beginning as an American state 

 occupied a leading place in provisions for public in- 

 struction. 



1 Reports of the California State Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, Sacramento : of the Commissioner of Education, 

 U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington : of the National 

 Educational Association, etc. Current events and discussions 

 are presented in two educational journals : The Western, Jour- 

 nal of Education and the Sierra Educational News, both pub- 

 lished in San Francisco. 



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