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Show mar schools. The completion of the buildings now in course of erec- 1 tion at Pierre, S. Dak.; Carson, Nev.; and Santa FB, N. Mex.; will add 'three more to the list. It will doubtless be possible at no distant day to organize grammar school departments in not less than twentyfive schools. The foundation work of Indian education most be in the primary schools. They mustto a large degree supply, so far as practicable, the I lack of home training. Among the special points to be considered in connection with them, are: (1) Children should be taken at as early an age as possible, before camp life has made an indelible stamp upon them. The earlier they oeu be brought under the beneficent influences of a home school, the more certain will the current of their young lives set in the right i direction. (2) This will necessitate locating these schools not too far away from . the parents,so that they can occasionally visit their little children, and-more ikequently hear from them and know of their welfare and happiness. (3) The instruction should be largely oral and objective, and in the highest degree simplified. Those who teach should be from among those who have paid special attention to kindergarten culture and pri- . mary methods of instruction., Mumc should have prominence, and the most tireless attention should be given to training inmanners md mor-als. No pains should be spared to insure accuracy and fluency in the use of idiomatic English. (4) The care of the children should correspond more to that given in a fi Children's Home" than to that of an ordinary school. The games and employmente must be adaptad to the needs of little children. The final nnmber and location of these schools can not yet be fixed. Probably fifty will meet the demands of the near future. Many of the reservation boarding schools now in operation can be converted into . primary sch0018. DAY SCHOOLS." , The circle of Government schools will be completed by the establish-ment of a su5cient nnmber of day schools to accommodate all whom it is not practicable to educate in boarding schools. It is believed that by providing a home for a white family, in connec-tion with the day school, each such scbool would become an impressive Sinoe these paragraphs om day sohools were written, I have been gratified tolearn that the plan thus outlined sobstnutially agrees with t,hat eet forth by t,helate Super-intendent of Indian Schools, 3. M. Haworth. iu his annosl reporb dated September 25, 1883, from which the folloeing is en extract: "The semi-boarding and industrial school referred to was recommended in my re; port of October last, and is repeated here with renewed recommendations for itl |
