The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02

'hN iiN hNiN o'toiiS othtilhShtc W
opposition TO any work of Steele's.
lie was preiudiccd against Steee's
system of teaching all about any
science sin fourteen weeks" He
was highly in favor of something of
the kind being done, but lie could
! not subscribe to the use of the par
ticular text books recommended by
the W. G. L. Il. He said the attain
able is often lost by aiming at the
unattainable.
Mr.. Oleson supported the theory
of intoxicating principles of total
abstinence i'm the minds of young
children. He had come from within
n stones throw of Neal Dow's
house, and he had opportunities of
knowing something about the anti
alcohol campaign. With respect to
Steele's works, he approved of some
of them: others he thought were
poor stock. While on the subject
of school hooks, he thought the time
had come for us to consider the duty
of facing the necessity of providing
school books specially adapted to
the wants of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Professor Merritt said he held the
doctrine of total abstinence in its
most radical form, and while he
could not endorse the larger work,
he would certainly wish to see the
fxyn tlnr hnAIyo an1n1 hxy
the w. G.. L. U. in the hands Of
every child in the world.
Rev. DR.. Hyde read the following
report from the Committee on Reso-
lutions:-
Whereas, The attention of this
Association has been called to the
facts in regard to the government
common schools of the Kingdom,
that is, schools'in Hawaiian taught
by Hawaiians, number, according
to the report of 1884, 115 schools,
with l19 teachers and 2S41 pupils,
as compared with the al select
schools with their 100 teachers in
English and 34S9 pupils; and to
the reports of increasing non-at-
tendance in the outer districts, the
inefliciency of Hawaiian teachers,
and the lamentable decentralization
of Hawaiian children of school age
growing up without suitable instruc-
tion
And Whereas, The multiplication
and increasing efficiency of schools
taught in English is matter of
great congratulation in view of the
difficulties to be overcome, the want
of suitable dwellings for teachers,
the almost utter lack of congenial
society, the changing character of
the population, the variety of Ian
guages spoken, the absence of any
inducement to well qualified and
experienced teachers to engage in
such rough and elementary work;
1nd Whereas, The pure Hawaiian
element of the school population,
constituting nearly one-half of the
pupils in the Government schools, is
now by the disproportionate atten.
ton paid to English speaking schools
in danger of being virtually pushed
aside and these schools in Hawaiian
disbanded as no longer a proper
and needful element in the govern
mental system of education:
Therefore, This Convention of
Teachers desires to put on record its
testimony and conviction as en-
bodied in the following resolution:
Resolved, CD THAT in the opin-
ion of this Association the existing
condition of affairs in this Kingdom
is not, such as to warrant the dis
continuance as yet of purely Ha-
waiian schools;
(2) That in behalf of the Ha-
waiians themselves, in danger of
being crowded out of their birth
right in the strife for merely COM
mercial gains, there should be spe-
cial attention paid to the preparation
of teachers for the purely Hawaiian
schools and the training of Hawaiian
children in moral character, and in
telligent citizenship through the
medium of their own language;
(3) That this Convention, con-
vinced Of the increasing Importance
of an annual gathering of the teach
ers, hereby respectfully urges upon
the Board of Education the APP
pointment of normal institute
for the next year, to be held
Tor at least one week of the
school year, in Honolulu, for
the benefit of English schools, and
to be under the direction of the
Inspector General of Schools, the
attendance of teachers to be con-
sidered part of the service for which
compensation is made by the gov
eminent, and that similar institutes
for Hawaiian school teachers of the
Government common schools, and
for all applicants seeking such a
position, be held at the expense of
the Government in suitable localities
on the other islands under the same