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Show ~p ~ ---- REPORT OF SDPBBINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. .413 Effect of the day school on the Indian home.-Jesse B. Mortsolf, teacher Cut Meat Creek Day School.-The purpose of extending the benefits of education to our wards at public expense is to uplift them not only as individuals but as a people, so that they may become a partof us, 11ei;ing instead of hindering our purposes. Thereisa hreaking through their darkness, a wish for something better than they have known, and we can paint to instances of where the younger generation have been influenced by the example of some teacher and his oodlvife to rise to higher levels. Character bd1ders.-H. C. Norman, teacier Bull Creek Day Bchooi.-Weare laying the foundation for a great structure. If you want to help your pu ila you must come out of yourseli. Pave the way for future usefulness. Thls takes K ard,patient, labor, hut is worth it. Our progress is necessarily slow, but it must tell ultimately. When pupils see clearly that there is something higher in life than a satisfied appe-tite and a gay cwtume-when they begln to think-it is one of the landmarks of n.r oe-r ess. FORT BERTHOLD INSTITUTE. [Fort Berthold Agency. N. Dak., October 8, 9, and 10,18OS.] [Conduetedl,y Supervisor A. 0. Wright st the Fort Berthbld Bosrding School: Mrs. H. E. Wilpon. seoremy.] EXTEACm PROM PAPEM AND DISCUSSIONS. Our reaponaibi1ity.-John 6. Hagge, industrial teacher.-Each one of us carries a responsibility, znd the weight thereof dependsupon the position we fill. For instance, we detail boys or irls to a certain work and charge them with the responsibility of both work and too7s. We h a ~ ae f ar greater responsibility when the Indians intrust toour care thedearest they have--the~r children. We find no two children perfectly alike. They may bealike m one respectwhile vastly different inanother. Therefore it is our duty as instructors to study each and every individual and deal with each accordingly. Do not attempt to have a pupil perform a duty until you are sure he or she has a dear understanding of it. In the discussion on this paper Mr. Wd ht said: "There is a difference between industrial work and industrial teaching. Hnaustria~ work has to be done, and the pupil's help is necessary. Children can work around the cooking and not learn to cook, especially for families. The pupils learn washing, sewing and cooking hy actually doing the work. They need tot he systematicall taught ktitching, cutting, and fitting." Mr. H. E. Wilson said: Teach the chiden independent thought; train hand, heart, and head simultaneously. The great aim of education is to learn to think, not especially to cmwd our brains with matter." Some differences between Indian and white boys.-R. D. Hall, Elbowoods, N. Dak.- The differences are mostly due to heredity, and so in passing judgment upon these differences we must remember the different standards by which Mse must juuge them. The white boy has had years of ancestral training in the present stand-ards of civilization, whereas the Indian b y has barely had one xeneration preceding him in civilizing influenws. One chxracterietic which distinguishes the I n d ~ a nbo y is apowerfnl imagination. which is eridenced in the wonderful stories t.hey.can tell of natural phenomena. This difference must be carefully watched and special pains taken to differentiate tmth and fiction. Again, it is to be noted that the Indran boy can not comprehend the reason for government, nor accept it as freely and unques-tioningly as a white boy does. This is due largely, I think, to the practical anarchy of their homes and its opposite in the schoola. But no better time can be chosen than in their youth to teach them to be law-abiding citizens. Whatahoold be the aim of the day schools%-Charles W. Hoffman, teacherDay School . No. 3.-The teachers of the day schools should try to get the parents of their pupils interested in the schools, and to have them undemtand that an education means to live like good white people, to be able to support themselves, and to take an interest in whntthey have. The day-school teachers must impress upon the minds of their pupils that what they learn at the schoolsmwt he used at their homes. The parents will soon find out something about the teacher, to see if he sympathizes with them, so the teacher should be careful always to set a goad example. The teacher should visit their homes aa often 8s posvible and see how they live. If the home is neat and orderly he should speak of it and encourage them to imprnre their condition and give them some new ideas in housekeeping. Indnatrisl training in schools.-ill. F. Minehan, teacher Day School No. 1.-I do not wantto depreciate tl,eimportaneeoftn~ntalr~-orkhooro kstudy, but I claim t.hat indus-trial training can not be ignored, especially in our Indian schools. The Indlan child has ver few advantages, and it beco~ncs necessary for the schools to sopplement this lac1 of training. We find most of the l n d ~ a nch ildl.eu when they first enter |