The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-06-25

faithful labors will have a lasting temporal if not
eternal blessing on each of his pupils, was left to
stray to Kauai to earn his bread as best he could.
The dissatisfaction with Mr.. ID. as a teacher, and
which led to his ejectment, when traced to It's
source, will be found to have existed only IN lew
of his pupils, who deemed his treatment too strict
for their personal comfort.
The ROYAL School, after a few months, was re-
vived, under the management of it's present ac-
complished teacher. 1t is snow, however, nothing
more than an Anglo-Hawaiian school, and if one
or two foreign children attend it, it is because
forced to do so from necessity. Foreigners will
not send their children to associate with natives,
not because they are any better, but because they do
not wish them to acquire native habits and phrases.
There is also the Town School, which is well
conducted and is now what it has always been a
charity school. A mall school for boys is also
kept by Capt. Smith, for teaching navigation,
&c.
We are then, as we said before, without any
select school for boys. Even the Punahou Col
lege, after its spasmodic existence OF a 1e"
months, was suspended and It's scholars scattered
to and fro. What is needed now is a good select
school here an to,cn. Parents living here 90 not
wish to send their children to board at Punahou,
distant two miles, and very few can afford to keep
horses solely for the use of their boys, even if
that school is successfully re-established. We
see about the town lads whose parents, in the
absence Of any school, find it difficult to keep
them employed. We see them becoming edu-
Gated in the streets, amid vice and Indebtedness.
their moral and intellectual culture neglected and
their childish impulses becoming vitiated, which
with proper ira ming might at least receive a diff
ferent course.
The reasons which have led to the change in
the Royal School and to the consequent present
chaotic state of our town schools are not easily
given. Whatever they are they appear - have
been &C. ish and injudic.) Jus. The opening of a col
legc here a. the tlEae it was commenced, was pre-
mature, howeye MUCK it may eventually be de-
manded. a good academy, open to all foreign
children, such as was the Royal School or Puma
hou School in 1853, was all that was needed.
They supplied the wants Of the town and also Of
the foreigners on the other islands, and gave q
good academic education to their pupils. The
very few vino desire Il collegiate education, are
abs and will in many cases continue to send
their children 70 the United States to finish their
course Oh learning.
Whether the Punahou College was created and
is maintained more as an object of favoritism and
as a gift attaching to the Department of Public
instruction, as is generally believed, is question
on which some curious developments might be
elected. We do not wish to throw any obstacle
in the way of its success or revival, but at pres
ent it is very doubtful whether it will be revived
as a college. And are the public of Honolulu
and of the islands to be deprived of the advan-
tages of an academical school till this doubtful
problem is solved, which may be one or two years.
We trust not. Here exists a necessity, let the
public come forward and act. There has here
tofore been too much dependence on the govern
ment, too much following the leadings of the
of Public Instruction in all matters
of education.
We see no good reason why a school can not
be opened here within ten days. A room can be
procured and efficient teachers are on the spot,
perhaps not approved by he Minister Of Public
Instruction, but approved by the public who have
quite as much % say in the matter. And scholars
enough are in waiting to ensure success, provided
there is somo union or system in the matter. This
subject is Of sufficient importance to receive some
decided and immediate public action. Perhaps
a meeting Of those interested should be called to
ta!1e steps in the matter.
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