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Show 496 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SOHOOLS. TO WHATE XTENTS HOULDTH E TEACHING OF MUSIC BE CARRIED? [A. 0. Wnr0a.r. sopervisor of Indian sohools.1 The general opinion in Indian schools, as shown by their prsotice, is against giv-ing advanced instruction. It is oonaideredalnxnry and not aneoe8sity. The work must be largely individnal, not class work, and is therefore expensive. The amount of skill that a n be acquired by an ordinary pnpil in the short time he or she may be in school does not pay for the effort. Of course there are exceptional pupils who can wisely be allowed to take lessons on the piano or organ or in advanced vocal music: but for the average pupil it is a waste of time and energy. Special instrnction on the piano or organ or in voice culture should not be in the conrae of study, bnt special pupils may sometimes he encouraged to take lessons. It follows from this that s ecial music teachers should not be employed, but that the regular teachersshoul$be depended on for such cases, as they are now depended on to teach the elemenbsof vocal music to their classes. But the question of what the childrensing is of as muohimportance as how they sing, and I plead for words and music to betaughtto the Indian pupilswhioh ahall be worth remembering all their lives, and which shall be an inspiration to them long after they have forgotten much of the formal teaching of the school. Both words and music should be simple, of course, bnt really worth something,and the range of these should be as broad as humanity. TEE ADVISABILITOYF ESTABLISHINOGN E OR MOREI NDIANS CEOOLSM ODELED AFTER THE STATE AGRICULTURSACLH OOLS. [EDWINL . CHI I~BAYTan, pervisor of Indian ~ohools.1 |