Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-08-04
WASHINGTON SCHOOLS
BEST In NORTHWEST
f. #. Nader, Deputy State Superin4
tendent, Says WAshington's
Educational System Sec
TO None In This Sec
lion.

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F. F. Nader, graduate of W.S.C.
at Pullman, Wash, now deputy state
superintendent of public instruction,
has returned to Olympia from the
National Educational convention in
California, and he announces that
Washington has school system that
| compares most favorably in every
particular and is superior in many
respects to those of the other Pacific
Coast states. He declares that Wash
ington has handled it's land grant
better than any other state and that
as for summer schools for teachers
that Oregon is just where Washing
ton was twelve years ago
Our educational system is in some
respects the best on the coast" said
Mr.. Nader. Our system of county
and city adoption of text books, by
boards of education so constituted as
to render them interested only in
the educational value of the books
selected, is a step in advance. |
talked with a number of leading
school men and representatives of
publishing houses, both from the
coast and Eastern States, and it was
the universal consensus of opinion
that in this respect Washington has
one of the best systems in operation
anywhere. Also, our school system
is proving to be second to none that
can learn of. Neither of the coast
states have made such rapid progress
in the development of practical
branches, such as the manual arts
and domestic economy, as has been
made in Washington during the past
five years. Indeed | met one woman
who has been assigned the task of
installing these branches in one of
the largest cities of Southern Cali
fOrnia, and she is planning to come
to Washington to study our system
with view to copying it for Califor-
MIA
Il spent some days in Oregon, Wis
iting summer schools at the State
University and the State Agricultural
College. In the development of sum
mer schools for teachers, Oregon is
whore we were twelve years ago. l
found one of our leading school men,
Superintendent j. G. Collicott, of Ia
coma, giving course of lectures at
the University of Oregon, and his pu-
pills and colleagues there are great
ly pleased with his work
"One noticeable lack in Oregon
arises from the fact that her land
grants for educational purposes were
all sold, not to say frittered away,
years ago, before great value became
apparent. A study of Oregon condi-
tions cOnyinces me of the wisdom of
our guarding most jealousy this
great heritage of the schools of Wash
ington.
Whlle leading spirits in Oregon
are yainly wishing they might have
their land grants back, ours are
steadily increasing the worth of our
educational endowment.
THE state of Washington was we'll
represented at the convention of the
National Educational association.
About $50 were present from this
state, and in every public discussion
that took place that l heard, the sane
and advanced views expressed by
Washington men won universal re-
spect, and greatly increased my pride
in our state. State superintendent
Dewey, who was the leading spirit in
getting our large delegation there,
deserves great credit for the fine
representation of our state that was
present"