Arizona republican., 1920-06-14

icy oe state that schools were second
 only tO the baffling 4nd1an PL I,ll'al o1iSlll
 He stood firm as did the 1lrst goEeL nor upon the declaration that 4nolaLls
 or no Indians. the settler must sAr0 his children an education ana tnaI au the face of sacrifice if necessary F1ls
 was the voice of Arizona altnoush many good men in the midst of isola,- ton and danger did not sDe@K-
 New school laws were made and the first school established under the new law at Tucson in March. 1871. IL en- rolled 138 boys, the most Of whom were
 A1oxicans Governor Stafford donated the books.
 Experieneee Teachers Arrive
 sTn 1878 the first experienced teach
 CTS entered the territory. Two women l came from California and after dan gerous Journey over the desert opened school at Tucson Moses Sherman 9
 trained teacher from Vermont came l as the principal of the public schoo4 at Prescott Schools also were estab- ] Iished in Phoenix, Stafford. una 1 Florence and Ehrenburg then g great l gold camp. This was the real begin 1 ming of a public school system in Arl~
 zona. Wealth from the mines and agri- I cultural development rapdily increased i the population, which led to more and T better schools. The nomad1c charac- ! ter in population from this period re- GG4CO as L1Ac1S pl 9ELLlC0 AAdbAN1 S4Dfsf "Phoenix and Prescott made large
 improvements in education in 1879 and 1880 through the construction of build
 ings the total amount expended being I almost $50. 00O- Tn the fall Of 1880 Ar1- 'I zona elected it's first school superin- tendent. the governor formerly having direct charge of schools. The first su II perintendent was Moses Sherman. He previously had served as ex-officfo su ,. 9erintendent under Gov. John c. Ere mont Fremont when he took office ! in 1878. is reported to have announced he would be too busy to have anything to do with schools.
 'sThe Arizona school system in 1SS'
 was in position to develop along broad . 1 CT lines There were nearly 1O,0oi . children in the territory. About one ' third of this number attended school ! There were 12S schools in the terri
 tory. with 143 teachers and schoo = property valued at S153,000. It ina, f taken IA years to found schools suffi
 cient to make this showing which wa
 considered excellent by the people : However, the time had come to molt = the system into a higher institution Q @ learning. Goodwin and Stafford ha . paved the desolate, discouraging wa, T which now had become easy for tray = elers bearing the light of education 2 The assembly in the midst of wealtl z from the mines and farms. from cattl v and commerce, gave to the school sys , tenn definite form. The standard Q = teaching was placed nigh. The stan : dard was definitely fixed by law. Tn
 struction in citizenship was added. Tn
 university at Tucson and the Stat
 Normal school at Tempe were mad
 possible by law backed by sufficien o funds
 IS Prom that year Arizona school - grew in number mad the system grad il ualIy increased in efficiency as th nF ma r, q years before. The entry into statehoo = marked progress and every year to tn - present this progress has been alway r noticeable. few theorists have raise s their voices uncomplimentary to tn - Arizona school system. Two years az a such a voice was heard and som l. methods of teaching as found in Ne, Is York and other great states of tn - East were lauded. The Arizona sys i tenn was attacked orally, but Arizon - lifted no voice in protest, knowing ths O all was well and that nothing coul II reverse its decision that 1t had anon " the best schools in the United State .el Then came the report, based on aC l- curate surveys of all states in the ns
 ton. Montana was first, Californ # second and Arizona third. with Ne 10 York near the center of the list IT r. systems of Montana. California ar ie Arizona were very close fin the nun Is Der of points upon which judgmel le was IS1uSieus PldtlhB Luc tiIte III at single class at the head of the list s- Tn Arizona the seed had been SOW l- too well to be uprooted in it's proce i'd of growth Out of the past of sea oI tering of little schools had been rear, d. a system which was good but nev ct so good that it could not be improve on III tnlS prlnclple lies the secret of tl he ASh stahuaru or Arlzona schools. lr ,Iv provements are being made all t he time. This is taken away and that in added and thus the refining proce ,se continues unproken' ana has continu ha unbrol1en from the days Of Goodw is to this hour"