Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-01-07
Tenoherr' Convention.

bot"''h wv hhd ioof the Island teachers assembled
fora FIRST session Monday last At 10 a. M
hhoftly after that hour froniiont Jonsn called
Tie meeting toof,iar aud made tho oiJeninp addres.
"" nnid That li" meeting had boon called together
Ia exchange thouRhta upon nubIocts VI vast i'm.
ppft,hoo rnbJcotH that must aiWr,as aysfy mind,
ana no I"Ii thnt Tie yufy htrpnRoAt thought should
u" bestowed. lie bnde hir honfofa welcome 10 ths
nHaocntoii, and hoped this coming thor would
u" productive Of inuoh good. The school tanoIets
w"uld hocomo known Ia one another, aud would
meet people who had tis Joys, the same dinap
pp,ni'"rn'a, tho same trials. They must havo
much Thought ~ common. brook wan 10 small
thing, but when ~ number of brooke Joined To.
eeth.r they nwellcd into river that awopt 10 the
"en WIN roaiStena fotrp M lao hopnd that tho
mental filla might In thia convention run together
ana produce mighty river Of thought Iio had
heard that nomo of tho teachers were afraid Ia
npenh nff,id iont they might mako nome miatake.
brook with u fall In H. wna better than ono with
ohti the f,lln OF tho mind IN person, might
give the noccnnary nip Ia the mind of another
MANY Of un had been running In narrow channels,
entihg into our own livrnj now In an opportunity
OF spreading out and fertilianR other ininia ho
hoped there would bo II widaninR. IL wan ueodiosu
Tor him ~ dwell ON the Elasticity Of tho Youthful
mind; all his hcnrora know about that. When W.
have Taught tho algebra and arithmetic, tho
rhetoric, THO geometry and no for and atorcd and
enriched tho mind W. have nino boon doing so,n,.
thing olno the character Of tho pupil hna bec,
moulded ut the name time. This IL the mont Inn
p"rthht pnrt OF tho oducntioni II IA thin which
serves To mako good ctizan. hi. thought OF
training tho character should und.rly the whole
hchcme OF education To the confederation of
these nubiectn ho bade h,s hearers welcome.
The heorctary rand tho lst of members and min
nt"n OF the irnt meeting Upon tho motion Of DR..
Hyde, seconded 10y Mr.. scott IL wnH proposed that
Mr.. Jonoe bc elected President for the ennuing
year. MIR. macintosh Wee President and Nj. A. Y.
Atkihnoh, Secretary and Treasurer. Carried.
Dr hyde then nominated the following ladies M
additional mambcrs OF tho Executive Committee;
Niim Corncy, Miss kobertson and Mns Winter.
Carried.
Dr. Hyde reported for the Committee Of Arrnnpo-
ments stating that there had boon some dinappoint
4, nd, tai al.
hVofcd Ia tho antocaiiui, but giving full pro-
grnlnino for tho sessions.
In tho absence Of MIR. Il. Hitchcock, DIR, iyde
read abort account of the early history Of Tia
wnihh schools. Tho alphabet waa completed on
Monday Jannnry 1922 beng work of American
MiMhonnricr. khmnhnDohu III. aud chioiH at once
became pupils. Before the year closed. they could
corroHpond. In 1894, chiois wanted schools
throughout the Islands, but failed Tor lack OF teach
"ra. The hrst sheets IN arithmetic printed In
i62' The hrst geography waa published 1882, and
from then to 1889 tho printing press was very Wig
"rous. Dr. Hyde exhibited specimens of these
curious books, full of quaint wood cuts evidently
from books cut III tho latter part OF liant century
or the beginning OF this with nHNll sprinkling OF
original blooAa cut here In reviewing the schools
tho Doctor mentioned the Royal boarding School
nH the iifnt to clam attention. IL WAS stnbalied
III iSH', nnd educated tho children Of the highest
olioiN, sonc Of whom arc still amongst us. In
hhnhluna Seminary wns established IN 1881; IN
1883 ~ was incorporated. Hero higher course
whs gwen, including algebra, geometry trigonom-
ctry, navigation, monsuratiun Surveying, etc. In
1850, female boarding school was established At
Wnlluku, Maui, and III tho same year. one for boys
ut iiilo, Hawaii Tins school was dosigncd ns
feeder To lhhhnnlun0. In 1876 there were select
schools Tor natives at Wnioli, Kauai, ut Waiaiun
Oahu, ut koolHu, Oahu, and At Honolulu the latter
established 10y Bishop Maigret. At this time, the
children OF hnlf-whitos were also cared for The
Oahu Charity School WIN established 1873, with Mr.
and Mrs. JohnstOnc IA teachers; there were dur
ing the next ~ years private schools organized
Tor the same purpose. In 1876, u High school was
commenced Tor the benefit Of foreign children,
and of course there Punnhou for the children
oi foreign parents nt that date the latter
ton had ~ scholars.
For more recent details Dr. Hyde called on
others, who were better acquainted with what had
been done, but failed TO get reply. President
Jones remarked that IL was curious TO note that
Governor Pnchoco when n little boy Ind been sent
down here To learn English, California at that
time not Supplying facilities the future Governor
of California had been taught by Mrs. Johnstone.
The address was followed by no debate.
After few remarks by Mr.. Mackintosh upon the
need OF system IN our schools, Mr.. NJ. NJ. Scott
gave mn account of the school system in Japan. IL
was not till 1868, that tho Japanese began to ac-
quire knowledge Of English. In 1854, when Com
lnodore Perry arrived there were only u few who
knew Dutch, and none of those resident in Yedo.
In 1865, school established at Toxic, in 1870
Mr.. Scott landed in Japan no mathematics had yet
been taught; he gave the first lesson. One great
di'houlty with Japanese h Il been their desire to
learn the higher studies without getting the ground
work. After his arrival phrase books were intro
duced, and Mr. Scott illustrated on the blackboard
the methods OF teaching English. The boys who
came To Toxic. had ~ good reading knowledge of
English, acquired from Japanesc;it became the duty
of the professors at Toxic to teach pronunciation
and composition The Japanese very DESTROYS
OF acquiring knowledge and in order to pass their
examinations TO enter the schools at Toxic, he had
known boys u trudge over 300 miles, Tho Japanese
IL patriotic; his object in studying IL for the good
OK MS country Theyare very quick TO learn boy at
IL IN thought equal to an American or European
OF IL, but after that age they rarely improved.
normal school had been organized by Mr.. Scott
in Toxic which had had great SUCCESS the teach.
1879, when he travelled over the country he found