The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-06-24

| keeper. who says: 1T costs money tC
buy books and periodicals, to travel u
| distant places and to pay hotel bill.
while in attendance upon the summer
! school or association. My salary is too
small. 1 cannot afford it" Mistaken
I deluded pedagogue, he cannot afford
not TO do it. Money invested in this
way will pay him better in money thar
! if loaned on bond and mortgage, be-
cause it. is the suTest road and the
| quickest TO those places with better sal
| aries, occupied by fellow teachers, thai
/ he is so anxious TO obtain.
Having shown in the foregoing the
| paramount necessity for thorough and
systematic preparation in order TO be-
come teacher, as well as while occu-
plying that honorable and exalted po-
sition, the question naturally presents
itself: Where and by what means can
the latter be attained to the best ad-
vantage, the expenditure of time, effort
and money taken into consideration p
My answer is. at the summer school
or institute. Indifferent teachers every
where need reminding that the work
they have dared TO undertake calls for
the highest personal culture they can
of this fact, and as a means toward this
end, that summer schools were estab-
lished
II there are any present who enter
tain doubts of the growing necessity
of summer schools, or of the practical
advantages derived by the teachers in
attendance upon them, l beg leave to
call their attention to this from the re-
port of the Pasadena schools. Mr.. Row
ell of Los Angeles, in an address before
the Sacramento Educational Associa-
ton, said:
I'm the Southern part of California
the teachers were in the habit of at
tending local institutes every month.
and many of the lectures heard at these
meetings during the past year were of
invaluable aid to the educators. Some
times as many as three hundred and
fifty teachers assembled"
Can there be any question as to the
good to be derived from such schools
as the Martha's Vineyard Summer In
stitute? This school was established in
1873, and is perhaps the Oldest and the
largest OF the many summer schools in
the United States. Four or five years
ago it had membership of about three
Three years ago the number
was seven hundred and fifty. Last year
twelve hundred and fifty teachers came
together from thirty-seven States. ter
ritories and countries. The range of
studies includes a school of methods
Elementary and high schoOD, under |
the management of Prof. A. w. Edison.
agent of the Massachusetts Board of |
a school of elocution and
0ratory, and various academic depart |
nents of the sciences, mathematics, his |
,ory, civil government, languages and |
literature
The instructors and lecturers include |
ome of the most prominent educational |
men and women in America. The insti-
ute is chartered by the Legislature of
Massachusetts, and is managed by a
BOARD of directors.
The famous summer schools located |
It Chautauqua, NJ Y, are celebrated
he world over, and need no detailed
mention here from me.
The little city of Athens, Georgia,
never so well deserved it's title. ''the
classic City, as when in 1892 the State
University of Georgia took it's stand un-
on the much harrassed pub
lc school system of that commonwealth
nd added department of pedagogics,
including spring-time school for teal
hers, under the energetic leadership of
Boggs, Professor White and
)r. Hopkins.
The same year the faculty of Harvard
University announced a special course
n the methods of instruction, adapted
D the purposes of teachers and of those
Intending to be teachers. Dear "Old
amherst" formerly the most conserva-
va of hn or - A.. l
tates, as long ago as 1875 established
summer school with twelve depart
nents, in languages, art, literature.
etc., with twenty-five ex-
ert teachers and lecturers, holding a
We weeks session in the months of
uly and August of each year, which is
argely attended by teachers from all
arts Of the United States and other
ountries.
And so l might continue to name
ummer schools of high and low degree
hat have been established in various
arts of the United States and Europe,
ii enjoying a full measure of success.
Sut why treSpass further upon your
ime and attention? Does not the es-
Adjustment of such schools prove the !
eed OF them, and the enormous pat
onage they enjoy promptly and eff
disSipate all doubts as to their
7orth and utility? 1t follows, then,
hat if the need of summer schools was
cit and appreciated in the United
tates and in Europe, surely the estab-
shment of such an institution by this
government is a crying necessity that
ught to receive prompt attention.
But | believe that a summer school, |
D be a success and of anV practical |
alue here in the Hawaiian Islands :
lust be first class in every respect, for
Though the distances are, not so great
ere as in the countries named, the
lodes of transportation are so distaste- t
IL to the majority Of our teachers, and
lie expense of it all so great, that it
ould require something more than
lediocrity of ability and accomplish (
tents on the part of the instructors
nd lecturers Of Hawaiian Summer
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