The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-25
Yesterday Was the Last ReguIar
School Day
NOW FOR THE EXAMINATIONS.
Professor Dumas Tells o. the Progress
of Methods of F.ducatiou- Professor
scott Concludes Lecture Course.
Closing Address by the Inspector

Summer School is pau" The gath
erings today, tomorrow and next day
will be for examination merely. Many
Of the 207 teachers go home today. II
is impossible yet to determine the full
effect of the Summer School, but it is
certain that something has been learn
ed in matter, that much has been learn
ed in method, and this, contrary to the
expectation of many, rather by the
good teachers than by the poor ones.
The great value of the school, however,
is the impetus it has given to thought
in teaching and TO professional study.
Mr. Townsend, DR.. Dresslar and the
corps of able teachers are TO be con-
graduated upon the work done and the
success attained May the summer
! schools of the future ever do as much
good as this one has done.
After the announcements and open
ing prayer, Prof NJ. NJ. Scott continued
his lecture ON Herbert Spencer, the
theme being Education"
Spencer's ideas of education come di-
rectly from his general philosophy. All
action is to be perfectly balanced TO
make the perfect man. The physical is
body" The second qualification is the
ability to make a living. Then he
should be able to perform duties TO
family. Many men stop here. 1t is the
| 80 Of ncnaaiaIIIy in the
United States, to neglect social and po
| litical duties. Finally, he should APP
preciate the beautiful in conduct, ma
ture, literature and art. Following these
general ideas, Spencer says:
The Englishman follows the same
plan in dressing his child's mind that
| the savage does his body
The savage ornaments his body be-
fore he clothes it. Our form of educa
ton, in the recent past at least, has
been something similar.
The most striking thing in Spencer's
"Eduaction' is his theory Of punish
ment. This is a system of natural con-
sequences. If a girl has been promised
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patience, but is late when the time
comes, do not scold, do not whip her
simply let her remain at home. If a
child is disorderly, and the mother or
nurse has to put away the things, when
he wants them again tell him he cannot
have them.
Mr. Townsend following, emphasized
this last point If a boy persists in
misbehaving on the playground let him
have his recess at separate time or
place from the Others
Mr.. Dumas spoke briefly of the nor
NAL class and of normal work in gen
eral. The first normal school was in
France, 200 years ago; the first one in
the United States was in Concord, VT,
| in 1923. But it was not until 1889,
when Horace Mann was the Secretary
| of Education, that any normal school
in the United States taught any meth
cd. 1t was not till Oswego was started
| in 1861 that there was any training in
| teaching, i. e., practical teaching under
| the eye of the critic teacher. The
! fourth stage in professional teaching
! is now in operation in most of our nor
NAL schools-child study, the testing of
! children's capabilities and observation
of children. There is still a step to take
"a fifth stage to pass through-that is
the training of teachers for the higher
| grades. This must however. come.
There is psychology in the work OF the
advanced teacher as we'll as of the pri-
mary teacher. This has already begun.
| Clark University, the Teachers Col
! lege, the New York University School
of Pedagogy, the Buffalo School of
! Pedagogy, all are training teachers for
this work. And Harvard Columbia.
Michigan, California and Leland Stan
| ford universities, to mention few, have
regular pedagogic courses.
! All this has not been without OppO-
| sition-witness Mann and the thirty
| one teachers. As in that case, so in
most. the opposition has come from
teachers.
| AS to our own work, while we have
not the apparatus nor the corps of in
structOrs of the schools in the States,
we can get nearer to our conditions, TO
the work to be done.
! After a short recess Mr.. Woodward
of Kamehameha Normal spoke a few
fitting words.
THE idea of professional training is
! young. But yesterday dentistry had no
school. Day before yesterday medicine
was learned in a doctors Office. Even
now law is often learned in a similar
way.
I'VE must study to get the method
and spirit of great minds. This inspira-
ton viii help US TO become original
| thinkers ourselves"
Mr. Dickinson of Lahaina explained
to the teachers the way to make papier
mache for modelling.
Mr.. King told of the adoption of
vertical penmanship at OswegO. and
gave direction for position, form of
letters, etc.
Mr. Townsend then closed the sum