Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-12-11
.ELKO SCHOOL SYSTEM
NOTABLE IN WEST
Is Sole Topic OF Discussion at Meeting
of Western Educators.

The Ello school system has become
SO prominent In educational advance
ment that the work 1t has accomplish
ed and Is now carrying forward was
the sole topic discussed at a meeting
OF prominent educators in San Fran
cisco on Saturday night.
The mthCd OF instruction that has
been developed under the supervision
Of Professor George Jensen and his
able assistants has come to the notice
OF educators throughout the Pacific
Coast states, and at the meeting held
in San Francisco Saturday night was
taken up with view TO It's general
adoption in the various institutions of
learning through the western states.
a representative OF this paper
learned that this meeting was to be
held. and In order TO obtain further
details interviewed Professor Jensen.
Some enlightening and highly inter
esting data on modern methods OF
teaching were given, with the under
standing that they be used as imper-
sonaily as possible. the interviewed
party being concerned only in improve
ment on education.
Deducing from the facts cleaned
during the interview, the work accom-
plished in the Elko school method Is
OF an evolutionary character and par.
taking to some degree of revolutionary
features.
Touching further upon the matter
of the meeting the writer will quote
from Professor Jensen's utterances or
! the subject, trusting 1t will not b,
/ considered a violation OF the promis,
! given.
There is in The United States now
in all educational and university cir
Cles. a fraternity known as the Phi
Delta Kappa. They have an alumni
branch at San Francisco, the member
/ ship OF which is composed OF the facul
! ties OF the Department of Education o
the University OF California and Stan
| ford University and all the other lead
| ing educators I'm the Pacific Coaa
states.
There are slx members In Nevada
three, Dean James OF the Nevada Uni
versity. Professor Young and Profes
sor TraInor. OF Reno; one at Fallon
Professor McKillip, and Professor
Lindquist and Jensen OF Elko.
This body OF educators keeps In
touch with the work going on in the
varions institutions OF learning and
! whenever progress in an individual
institution reaches an advanced stage
| sufficient to give il distinction thi,
body takes cogniZance of the matter
and investigates the fundamental rca
sons for It's advancement over Other
like institutions.
In Elko we have conducted, from
time to time, what we term scientific
Investigations into matters concerning
teaching that have formerly not re
Ceivcd great attention, in a general
sense.
one of the things we accomplished
here aided the pnpils to high averag,
| In spelling. Another was n new de
! parture in teaching English compost
tion. a feature of this work was tn,
establishment of two journalistic or
gans in the high school, one conducted
by the Juniors and one by the Seniors
The result OF our investigation or
the cause Of bad spelling we rendered
In the form OF n report which was sen
to the fraternity, and along with 4
they called for n complete report OF
the Elko High School activities.
These two reports were investigatct
at the meeting in San Francisco Satur
day night, the latter OF which contains
twelve closely typewrItten pages and
deals with the subject rather from q
philosophical standpoint.
What has been chiefly IN my mine
during my connection with the school,
here was q desire to place the Elkt
school on the map, and IL has taken uT
activities that for the most part ar,
new in the west. such, for instance. al
supervised study by supervised study
we now take ninety minute period
instead OF the regular forty-five; tht
first half Is given over to class recltalt
and the second half TO the same teach
er supervising the same course o
study with the same students, the stu
dents getting tho lesson for the mex