The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-07-17

10 throw any teacher Out' One OBJ
Icct In view is 10 place the teachers
on higher platte Of scholarship
md thus to secure for them the bet.
ter respect of the community.
Mr.. Scott, Mrs. Ovcrcnd and Mr..
Amolu were appointed Il committee
10 attend any members OF the Lcgis-
laturc who may be pleased TO visit
the rooms, show them round and cX-
plain if need bc the exhibits Of
school work on view
Mr. Moore took up Arithmetic
and proceeded to answer questions
tabled yesterday. The first question
related to the teaching of rotation
including dccimals. The question
was answered partly with a repro
ductiou on the blackboard of the Ia
hulated form printed in the first
pages of every arithmetic book pub
lishcd since the time of Cadmus,
and partly with u heterogeneous SO.
ries of oiseoursivc comments and
celebrations. "If you learn that
and then study it perfectly, there
will be no difficulty in pointing
them OFF, was one of the gems of
the lecture. Tho lecturer then pro.
ceeded with percentage, and the
best method OF teaching this rule
was supposed to be set forth. The
teacher who attempts to follow the
model placed before him will surely
win his spurs as an educator of the
class of academccians described by
Burns: "they gang in slots and
come out asses"
The next number on the pro-
gramme was an address by Rev.
Alexander Macintosh. The Rev.
lecturer after a humorous preface
relating the manner in which this
duty happened 10 be laid upon him,
said he came TO this country in COM
pany with the present Inspector
General. Before leaving home he
had got rather queer idea of the
outfit required for the occasion. He
had offered Il brother who was 90
ing TO Paris all bis good clothes, rs
he himself was going to where the
man. Landing in Honolulu he was
met with an invitation TO swell
party upon which he was delighted
to discover that his brother hadn't
taken his best coat. He was pack
ed off to Lahaina and dOmicied in 81
building of very crude architecture
and in u bad state of repair. His
idea of the work that would be cx-
pected of him at that place was that
he should have to recast the IDEAS
of his. pupils on religious subjects F.;
but he was rather surprised to find
the boys well up in bible knowledge,
knowing it from end to end. He
soon found that the boys knew
something he did not, as he
heard them speaking strange
!, language on the playground,
He applied himself to the acqusi-
l ton of the language. On one oc.
casion when in Honolulu, he went
S to the Nuuanu pail and was an all
|
e seemed to look at the scene with in
i difference, circumstance that hi
: accounted for by saying that The
: pail scenery was nothing TO a fel
Il low only two years in the country
: and able to speak the language
After some time spent in Lahaina
lie came to Honolulu and started ;
: private class, but was soon called Il
take charge of the Royal School
y He had made it fundamental prin
! ciple in his teaching that man is
n thinking animal and had always trieC
o to impress upon his pupils the i'm
r portance of utilizing In real life tn
! knowledge gained in the schoo
" room. The native Hawaiians nee,
l. to be treated differently from for
II eigners. They are to be treale
# with indulgence. They cannot b
:; coerced. He had not in fiftee
} years, administered corporal punish
:; ment. A great deal has been hear
l. about the folly of educating til
Hawaiian, coupled with the solem
y dictum that tie nltive must 90 /
&c the wall but if there is one thin
l. fixed in his (the speaker's) min
'e more than any other, it is that TIL
lie native must NOT 90 TO the wal
N After four or five years labor in til
= Royal School merchant asked hil
p for boy qualified for service in HI
s, office. The boy nominated by lil
IN got the situation, and since tbs
time over 200 boys have been place
'd in situations which they are filling
y highly creditable manner. II
H. had been in the habit of keepir
an eye on the boys graduated fro
re the Royal School TO situations, an
~ when occasion required coming
IN their assistance with useful advi(
ar and otherwise. The native Ill
IN waiians are people for whom it
pleasure to be able to do anythin,
n. They have their faults, no doub
ne but their faults are in many re
h poets duly equal to some of our vi
IL tues. He had seven of his boys
at dinner one day recently, and Il
er ladies of the house said thai sew
to more gentlemanly fellows never S
nd down 10 table. lie had alwa
brought his boys up in terms of
he mutual friendship that was inyari
on bly, continued in very agreeal
manner after the boys left as w
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