. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . he way for the education EDUCATION 167 of his people. The Cherokee language containseighty-five sounds. Sequoyah (George Guess) in-vented a character for each sound. He made theinvention about 1(S21. As soon as Oklahoma was settled, schools werestarted. When Oklahoma Territory was organ-ized, a territorial superintend-ent was appointed by thegovernor (Governor Steele),also a county superintendentfor each county, and an edu-cational S3^stem was soon out-lined. The first territoriallegislature provided for a uni-versity, an agricultural coll
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . he way for the education EDUCATION 167 of his people. The Cherokee language containseighty-five sounds. Sequoyah (George Guess) in-vented a character for each sound. He made theinvention about 1(S21. As soon as Oklahoma was settled, schools werestarted. When Oklahoma Territory was organ-ized, a territorial superintend-ent was appointed by thegovernor (Governor Steele),also a county superintendentfor each county, and an edu-cational S3^stem was soon out-lined. The first territoriallegislature provided for a uni-versity, an agricultural college,and a normal school. Beforestatehood there had been es-tal^lished in addition to these, two other normalschools, a preparatory school, and a school forcolored people. Since statehood the number of state schoolshas been greatly increased. There have beenadded three normal schools, a prepara- IIP- 1 state schools tory school, a school oi mmes, a col-lege for girls, a school for the deaf, one for theblind, a boys training school, a school for feeble. Sequoyah, Inventor ofCherokee Alphabet 168 OKLAHOMA HISTORY minded, a school for orphans, and six secondaryagricultural schools. At the session of the state legislature in 1911,a law was passed providing for a State Board ofEducation, giving it additional powers. This lawhas done much to unify the school system of thestate by giving the Board control over all thestate schools, except the agricultural schools, andgiving it the power to select the textbooks for thestate. The Board of Agriculture has control ofthe agricultural schools. The common schools are free, the cities providefree high schools, and the state provides highereducation free. The law provides for compulsoryeducation, for uniform textbooks, for the con-solidation of district schools, and it forbids childlabor that will prevent children from attendingschool. Oklahoma received from the United Stateslarge grants of land, also 15,000,000, for the sup-port of the common
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