The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-11-18

One Of the greatest educators Of the
age is your Uncle Sam. School mas
ter, indeed, he is with nearly 10000
900 pupils receiving instruction in the
schools and colleges of the country.
And the fact that fully nine-tenths Of
this vast army of students are en-
rolled in the public institutions Of
learning indicates how democratic a
country We Nave. So strongly had
Uncle Sam developed his pedagogical
propensities, in fact, that no sooner
had he taken Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines under his fatherly watchcare
than he set about establishing schools
in those islands, so that to-day excel
lent public school systems are doing
effective work with the native child
rem Of these outlying possessions.
When one stops to think Of what a
vast and complicated educational sys-
tenn has grown up, he is able to APP
preciate somewhat the tremendous
task involved In collecting the educa.
tional statistics Of the country, and he
is not surprised that these statistics
when all gathered together make a
most voluminous report. So great, IN
fact, Is the work involved that the
commissioner Of education has but
just completed the work for the school
year ending in June, 1905.
The enrolment in the schools al
that time was almost 100000 ol
whom 100000 attended public insti
tutions, while the balance attended
private institutions.
The enrolment in the schools anC
colleges was distributed as follows
Elementary schools, 17.01s,259; sec
ondary schools, thigh schools an'
academies) S76,050 universities an'
colleges. 1854; professional schools
81, 1922, and normal schools, $4,000 TX
these figures should be added 727,S7
pupils in special schools. During tn
last Is years the increase in enroll
ment in schools and colleges, leayinl
the special schools out Of considers
ton, has been one Of 3,647 ,697-tha
Is, of 25 per cent-while tn
gain in population-almost 100000
amounts to 80 per cent. On the oti
err hand, the percentage Of the schoc
population (persons between five an
Is years Of age) enrolled in III
schools has increased from 81 pc
cent. to 10 per cent during the last 3
years.
The total expenditure for educatio
during the year under review amour
ed to sS76,996,472. a sum equal
more than one-half of the cost Of tn
national government.
The aggregate OF school property Il
creased. almost s5O.O00,O00 In valv
during the year, reaching a total I
1888 ,446, sos, while the average e.
penditure for school purposes gre
from 1876 to 1853 cents per day 4
the instruction Of each pupil.
The average length Of the scho
year has been steadily inoreasln
namely, from 1872 days In 1870 to II
days in 1905, while the percentage
I male teachers in the entire teachir
body has been declining gradually 4
a number Of years-in fact, during Il
past five years there has been a To-
in the total number Of male teache
!, employed.
!, BY reason OF the recent activity
the government IN the direction Of fC
i est preservation, considerable intere
attaches to the opportunities Il
: nished for instruction In forestry Y
!. learn from the report that Of the
institutions In which instruction
F.. forestry was given 81 we're agricr
! tural and mechanical colleges esta
= lished under the land grant act
1 1862. Only six institutions. five sta
/. universities and one agricultural C
!, lege, had full four-year undergradua
q courses in forestry, while two, Yi
I, and Michigan, maintained gradua
i courses.
In the report devoted to the stat
tics Of state school systems, we a
told that several states expend +;
IA nually for schools s25 per capita
i. school population, and several /,
Is than three dollars per capita; that O
4 state maintains It's schools 1914 da
n in the year and another only SS. Il
:. one state pays Its teachers s65 /
ii month, and another only s2S; that d
Is state enrolls over 80 pc Of
At school population. and - er /,
Al than As per cent.
n. In the year under consideration
are classed as colleges Of liberal al
"A as schools Of technology, and
as institutions admitting women on
ay OF the 54S so-called B A. colleges,
rh are open to both men and women q
lie 1s1 to men only. while exactly half