Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The International Conference on Education: Held at Philadelphia, July 17 and 18, in Connection With the International Exhibition of 1876
Preliminary to the reports Of the proceedings of the daily sessions of the conference, it has been thought important, as bearing directly upon the subject of international educational statistics, to insert here the following free translation of a paper written by Dr. Ficker, imperial counsellor at Vienna, Austria, which is taken from the introduction of an article in Schmid'a Pedagogical Encyclopedia. The distinguished author is acknowledged to be one of the most eminent statisticians of Europe.
School statistics include an exhibit of the actual state of education, and its results at a certain given moment, with a view of ascertaining the laws which regulate them.
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