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They are intended for use after the manner of the\r\nsource books or collections of documents which have so vastly improved\r\nthe teaching of general history in recent years. No argument is needed\r\nas to the importance of such a collection for effective teaching of the\r\nhistory of education; but I would urge that the subject requires in a\r\npeculiar degree rich and full illustration from the sources. The life of\r\nschool, college, or university is varied, vivid, even dramatic, while we\r\nlive it; but, once it has passed, it becomes thinner and more spectral\r\nthan almost any other historical fact. Its original records are, in all\r\nconscience, thin enough; the situation is still worse when they are\r\nworked over at third or fourth hand, flattened out; smoothed down, and\r\ndesiccated in the pages of a modern history of education. 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