The government class book / Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.

by Andrew W. Young

[Chapter XXII.]

[§1.] What is the proper object of government? How is it to be done?

[§2.] What is the effect of education upon a people? Of ignorance?

[§3.] Why should government provide the means of education?

[§4.] To what extent is this done? By what means?

[§5.] How is the deficiency in the income of the school fund supplied?

[§6.] How, and to what extent, are school funds provided in the new states?

[§7.] In what way, and to what extent, were the school funds increased in 1837?

[§8.] How are school moneys from the state treasury apportioned? How is the deficiency in the public moneys to pay teachers made up?

[§9.] Why are schools called district schools, and common schools? What officers are elected in districts?