Pratt's Views Towards Filling Teaching Positions with Graduates

Richard Henry Pratt provides his views on having graduates from the Carlisle Indian School and other industrial training schools fill agency instructor positions. Pratt notes that he does not believe this a good system due to the lack of training among Indian apprentices in their trades which would not allow them to be competent teachers. In addition, he notes that there is no standardized grading system amongst the schools and therefore no way to measure the ability of students to become instructors.