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[[underlined]] appointed schools [[/underlined]], where each teacher has ^[[insertion]] his or her [[/insertion]] class or classes of regular attendants, and makes it his or her business to teach, and ^[[insertion]] to [[/insertion]] do nothing else, — this is simply and obviously irresponsible.

A single case — A man or woman comes into the quiet gathering (it can hardly be called a "school" in the erroneous acceptation of the terms) — for three or four weeks, perhaps, he is taught, and effectually taught to read, or to spell, or a little of Arithmetic — he is then absent for a month in consequence of change in his place of labor or from some other cause — at the end of the month he returns and comes into the school again and goes on from the point where he left off.

Now is he to be reported as having "left school"? He has not "left", and yet he is [[underlined]] not there [[/underlined]]  His teacher [[underlined]] does not know, [[/underlined]] he himself does not know, when