The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-12-08
MANUAL TRAINING.
ONE OF THE CHIEF DEFECTS OF
OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

When the Poor Boy Goes Out of school.
What Manual Training 9Ieans-Result
of Bringing Nerves TO the Froot-In
the shops.
There Is not a child in the world that ought
TO try 70 live by his wits alone: nor one who
ought 10 be compelled to live by the work Of
his hands alone Most bows that enter our
schools have 10 grow up TO the idea that they
are to work with their hands 1t follows
that few are 70 grow up TO the idea that
they need not toll at all with their hands So
we have in our educational system TO look
out 10 educate our two classes; our high caste
and low caste boys and girls. Naturally, the
one caste viii despise the other; and the other
viii pay back with hate So, by and by, you
get your social division of labOrers and cap
itaEStS, and with II the moral dynamite q
eternal dislike.
Common education is not education at ell,
when it has taught reading. writing and the
usual school curriculum. The poor boy goes
out of the schoolhouse, and he must live
thereafter by means of that part that is not
educated-his hands. He cannot use the
education, or what YOU have given him for
education, at all; or if at ALL so little that
it chafeS at him at his daily toll His cdu-
Gated brain is angry. He Is obliged TO come
down to an uneducated part of his body for
hfe'S living Is the rich boy any better Offl
He goes out not compelled TO toll with his
hands but what can his brain do alone3 The
poor skull full Of protoplasIu is driven to take
up with profession, or to dabble i'll some
sort of speculation.
But does manual training not mean that
the boy or girl educated to use tools must be-
come mechanic! OF the graduates of the
admirable school connected with Washington
university at the last commencement, zone in
tends to be physician another a dentist, an
other lawyer. Some half dozen expect a
commercial pursuit; two viii raise stock or
become farmers; several hope to become en-
gineers; three aspire to he architects; four or
five viii work for a while in machine shops
while fifteen OF more intend to make a higher
course o. study, either ut the university or
elsewhere"
NO DoDGING THE FACT.
"A boy who sees nothing in manual labor
but brute force despise% both the labor and
the labOTern There is no doa~ing the fact
that our educated classes" dcSpise labor.
You cannot get around it. For "A college
graduate to become manual labOrer is con
sidered coming down Until very recently
the crowd from our colleges went nowhere
but into the professions. Slowly this is
changing, but there is still the prejudice and
the sharp division. Manual labor schools
UNDERSTANDING. The best brains are finding
it advantageous also to have the best hands.
Our lives under the stress of the older cdu-
cation brought the nerves to the front. The
brain ran away with us. The tendency has
been to absorb all the vitality i'm that one
organ. Our hair falls ont with our teeth.
Our eyes are failing and our sense of smell.
Our endurance is not equal to that-of our
fathers. Athletics have done something
is necessary that our school system shall be
wholly remodeled. We must not only have
physiology and hygiene taught, but must
have it practiCed in .ody culture
Education, instead of undermining health,
should create health and character II is
absurd 10 say you have taught or trained a
boy when you have only half killed him.
What have you cducatcdl Tho turkey is
stuffed, let us kin him outright. No child
should be confined to n book over one hour
consecutively in n day. Play should bc a
part of tho enforced curriculum. But how
admirably manual training supplements OF
compliments brain training Let them 20
from the shop 10 their books and back again
TRIP THROUGH THE SHOPS.
Let us look a little more into detail Let
us enter Professor Woodward's Scholarships,
if you prefer to call it. The carpenter shop
all sorts Of saws, squares, bevcls, ganges,
hammers, maIlets, rules, planes, Cbsels, bits,
hatchets. The most beautiful thing here Is
orler-all the tools in good condition and in
their own places ! hardly ever saw "A study,
where the brain ruled alone that de-
Gently kept. Scholars are provcrbially lack
ing in tdincss I am afraid, professor, these
boys viii never be literary, they are too or
DERBY. Woodturniug- not 50 many tools;
but system as before Ny boy Fri'z can
scarcely contain himself; iC this bc study, if
this be school, how delightful The horror Of
two things brOOd5 over the ordinary sch ,Ol--
silence and pTimness. ! wasted ten years in
school because these Nightmares were igsuffcr
able. But ! was fortunately puny. Fritz is
a great, rugged and awfuly active piece Of
machinery. "lf sou wish to keep that watch
in good order, sir, yOu must not let it run
down" just 50, Fritz viii be spoiled if yOr
stop him
The forge All, here we come 10 Hfei
Strike while the iron is hot! BE alive bOysl
How their eyes sparkle, ike the sparks from
the blows. Mrs. Lillypaugh, your son here
will surely get his hands soiled, but, my
glory what hands he viii have. Such a
tender love in themi and such n gripOf TRUTH
You will be glad by and by 10 feel his grand
arm around you in your old age ! hate n
musty little boy, done up in Ponds extract
and not able TO carry his Latin dictionary.
The machine shOp-lathes planes, drill-aUd
what is all the time touching the boys imag
nation, power Everything great is con
summated and summed up IN "A steam engine.
How ! should like 10 resurTects Adam /
mean that Adam who first took q stone and
fixed q handle To It 70 break md pound with
7 would like to have him come in here with
me and 500 what his first hammer, made 100,
600 years ago, has come tO-sghat is going TO
come tO-Can you EUfss>-"E. +. p b'