The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-20
HEAD IF SCHOOLS ON VISIT II
 CORDOVA


 territorial board of education, arrived in Cordova on yesterdays train and will remain here until the next boat sails for the westward. He is making tour of Alaska, visiting the different schools. He went to Nome about Aug lust 1, and spent some time on seward peninsula. From there he made eihe trip up the Yukon river, stopping at Ruby, Iditarod and Panama, then to Fairbanks. A trip was made over The government trail to Chitina and the school there and at Mccarthy and Kennecott visited.
 MT. Henderson wants to standardize the schfools of Alaska, prepare uni form course of study and unify the work generally. He says that at pre- sent the schools show lack of any unity, due principally to the frequent change of teachers, with no continuity of purpose. Notwithstanding this fact he found the majority of them well manager
 Herbert Hoover, food commissioner, and the National Educational Associ- ation have appointed MT. Henderson as representative of food conservation in Alaska.
 An American is a citizen of the greatest republic in the world, and l citizen of the world" said Mr. Hender- son to Times representative. Thrift education should be enlarged upon and the people should cooperate with in- |structors to encourage every pupil of the public schools to have a sayings account Statistics show Su per cent of the population of the United Statess Is dependent on charity at the age off 55. Why. Because people do not save. Teach the children the value If saving and economy and partially 10 psss | with the present inequalities that a1s-I causing so much social unrest and un- happiness today.
 ''In some lines the schools in Alaska have just as high standards as those in the states, while iu~ other lines they are somewhat inferior. This is due to the fact that outside they have an al most universal school system, while in the interior of Alaska 1t is more of a unit system. There is no reason in the world why Alaska should not have good schools, because the territorial legislature has appropriated more money for the maintenance of public schools than any other state in the Union, With the added appropriation of this years legislature the schools ought to take an advance toward eff ciency more than ever before. If the community is not getting this ef- ficiency then the plans of the terri torial board of education are not ma terializing."
 Mir. Henderson dwelt upon the i'm portance of manual training and do mestic art, saying that these vacations developed phase of the pupils natu- ral character and not touched in book education.
 Tt serves as a concrete example of accuracy" he said. Mental training is not all we have to look for in the pupils education, but body and spirit should be cared for. Cordova needs physical. training for the school. An other important issue that has been neglected here is the dental examina- tion of pupils and the medical inspec- tion.. This should be taken care of at once. Also the compulsory law com polling all children between the ages of eight and sixteen to attend public school, should be- more carefully en- forced. The legislature appropriated money for the enforcement of this law last year.
 "A school board should not enter tain the idea of dictating to the> edu- cators in charge. True, they should advise and be sure they choose com petent teachers, who make a study of education, then feel satisfied to abide by their work. Teachers become more valuable year after year and the board should strive to get teachers who in- tend to stay on indefinitely.
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