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Show 100 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN $>'!?AIRS. he schools should be located id thb midst of a farming community, 'remote from reservations, and in rhe vicinity of railroads and some thriving village or city. The students would thns be free fl.om thegreat downpull of the camp, and be able to mingle with the civilized people that surround them, and to participate in their civilization. The teachers should be selected with special reference to their adap tatiou to th,e work, should recewe a compeosatlon equivalent to that .paid for like service in white schools of same grade, and should have a stabletenure of office. The number of these schools that mill be ultimately required can not be determined accurately without more experience. The number of . pnpils who can be profitably educated in high schools is not large, but is growing larger year by year. It may be best for the present to develop a high.schoo1 rlepartmeut in say three sohools. Those at Car-lisle, Pa., Lawrence, Kans., and Ohemawa (near Salem), Oregon, can readily do so. Indeed, high-school classes have already been formed and are now at work. In the future the schools at Oenoa, Nebr., and Grand Junction, Oolo., can be added to the others, making a group of .five high schools, admirably located to supply the needs of the great body of Indians. Their graduates will supply a body of trainedmen and women conlpetent for leadership. The cost of n~aiutaining there schools will depend upon the numher of pupils provided for. One hundred aud seventy-five dollars per cap-ita, the sum now paid at several places, will probat)ly be ample. For the year ending Juue 30,1889, the sum of $80,000 was appropriated for Carlisle, and $85,000 for Easkell Institute. It would be easy tp carry into successful operation t,he plan here outlined by an annual outlay of $100,000 for each school, which is a,very small advance over the pres-ent appropriation. GBAXMAR SOHOOLS. . . As the large massof Indian youth who are to be educated will never ' , get beyond the grammar grade, special pains should be taken to make these schools as efficient as 'possible. The studies should be such as . a r e ordinarily pursued in similar white schools, with such roodification8 as experience may suggest. Among the points that may properly receive special attention are the following: I (1) The schools should be organized and conducted in such a way as to accustom the pupils to systematic habits. The periodsof rising and retiring, the hours for meals, times for study, recitation, work and play should all be fixed and adhered to with great punctilionsness. The . . ' irregularities of camp life, which is the type of all tribal life, should give way to the methodical regularity of daily routine. (2) The routine of the sct~ool should tend to develop hubits of self |
