The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-12-24

future OF the native race of these islands
as the fiourishing condition of the
schools. And to me this Kamehameha
School, founded by two of my most
highly esteemed friends, one of whom
has entered into her rest and the other
God be praised-is still spared to carry
out and supplement her grand plan, in
Its wise and comprehensive conception;
to me, | say, this school is the most
cheering and hopeful enterprise OF all.
For / have this advantage over "Uld
Rip" though you NAV not think it. |
have not been asleep all the time / have
been away from here. And have had
unusual opportunities for seeing the
working and actual results of various in
dustrial schools, and for many years
have been actively connected with one
which has achieved a high reputation,
not only at home but all over the civil
lized world. And this famous school, to
which educators come from all parts of
the United States and even from Europe,
to study its methods, was established by
native born Hawaiian, son of an
American missionary, who went into the
service of the King, and organized the
system of schools here as Minister of
Public instruction.
When lived here, one of the most
prominent landmarks OF Honolulu was
the Bethel Church, of which that good
aud universally beloved man, DIR. Dam
on, was pastor. At that time it was the
only church having English services, and
the church-going foreigners attended it.
FoRTY-Two YEARS AGO
had Sunday-school class in that
church, of boys of seven and eight years
OF age. One of the most restless and
mischievous OF these little boys was Sam
Armstrong, who, after attending school
at the Royal School and Oahu College,
finished his education at Williams Col
lege in the United States, entered the
service in our war of the rebellion as
soon as he graduated, rose by his gal
lantry and distinguished services to be
Brigadier-General in command of colored
troops, and was assigned to important
and responsible duties, after the war, in
the Southern States. Believing with the
famous war governor of Massachusetts,
Andrew, that the next duty after the
vigorous prosecution of the war was "an
equally vigorous prosecution OF the
peace" and being greatly interested in
the freedmen of the South, of whom four
millions had been emaneipated by the
war, he determined to devote himself to
the establishment of school in Virginia
for their proper training and education,
where they might be fitted for the duties
and responsibilities of American citizen
ship, so suddenly thrown upon them.
He felt that the ordinary system of
school instruction would not suffice
and that no method would be successful,
which did not train the head, the heart,
and the hand alike.
GEN. ARMSTRONG
carried out his plan, and now its wisdom
is acknowledged by all, and industrial
education is now demanded for both
white and colored schools, and they are
being multiplied all over the United
States. The head is trained in the usual
way in the large and airy class rooms
such as you have here. The hand on
the farm or in workshops like yours also
airy and large, where great variety of
trades are taught, all the furniture, the
buildings, are made from lumber sawed
on the school grounds. The bricks are
also made on the premises, as we'll as
the wagons, carts, tools, etc. The har-
ness ON Mr. Bishops span of horses was
made by the Indian and negro pupils,
who successfully compete in open
market, for Government contracts for
Indian supplies. In addition to these
shops and factories, where the students
can learn regular trades, we have what
are called technical shops, where every
student, boy or girl, is required to at
tend, and learn the ordinary use OF ordi-
nary tools. Here all the students are
taught how to make a plain box, or
bench, or desk, a shell or a picture
frame, how to paint them, how to set
window-glass, etc., all which helps SO
much to make home convenient and
attractive, or supply the needs of
schoolhouse. Among the eight hundred
graduates who have gone out from the
school during the twenty-one years of its
existence, are doctors, lawyers, prech
ers and teachers, some of whom are
eminent in their professions and whose
success is largely owing to the habits of
industry in which they are trained.
And now, nay dear young friends of the
KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS,
having told you something of the meth
DDS of this Hampton school in Virginia,
founded by son of Hawaii, who has
given TO it his very life blood, you may
easily believe how, with my faith in the
efficiency of those methods, and my great
aloha for the Hawaiian people, rejoice
in the establishment of this admirable
school, with its ample accommodations,
its industrial training, and its devoted
and accomplished teachers. 1t gives me
new hope for the race. May the train
ing you receive here give YOU strength |
and courage for the struggle for existence |
in which the native Hawaiian is now en- |
gagged. By the knowledge you will ac-
quire here, by the habits OF industry. |
thrift, temperance and economy in |
which you will here be trained, you will
be better fitted than the Hawaiian has
hitherto been for the sharp competition
of other races, with which you must in
contend. trust you will APP
preciate the great opportunities before
you, and that you will gratefully cherish
the memory of her whose last thoughts
were for the welfare of her people, and
who has given such grand exemplica-
ton of her earnest wishes in their be-
half. hope and believe that you, boys of
Kamehameha school, will also establish
A HIGH STANDARD
Of character, and help each other to live
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