The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-09

like her. On the walls of her room were
many fine short notices such as
Speak the Truth Aloha ma Makua,
Welcome Friends etc. The discipline
of this school is of high order. Miss
Duncan's greatest quality as teacher
is thOrcughness of work. / never saw
the phOnic method taught any better
than by Miss Duncan. Her needle work
Is also first-class.
The Fort Street school is very in
teresting on account the influence of
the principal being seen in all the
rooms. While principal Smith is very
active he has the power OF getting his
pupils 10 work well by merely directing
them. In the Kamehameha boys
school I saw a splendid teacher seem
ingly working herself TO death in the
schOoI-roOm. Here is an opposite: Mr.
Smith has his pupils 70 do more than
ordinary pupils In the neatest and
most skilful manner by merely his in
huence. In discipline, knife carving and
map drawing his school is one Of the
first in the city. He has also a little
library and q museum. Mr.. Smith
talks 20 his pupils like father while
on account OF neatness in his school
room, you would fancy yourself in the
presence of a young lady.
The kauluwela school is for Chi
nese boys. From what / had seen OF
other Chinese schools l had an idea
that they were all noisy and slow 10
learn. but in this school / found them
splendid workers and quiet. Mr.. Wells,
the energetic principal, is an enthu-
siast in geography. He has construct
ed several fine maps and an immense
globe with putty.
In the Mills Institute the Chinese
study in their own language. This in
stitute has a fine appearance, every
thing being kept so orderly and clean.
The cultured principal, the Rev. Mr.
Damon, loves the Chinese and seems
TO have as much enthusiasm for their
education as Mr.. Macintosh has for
the education of the Hawaiians. Mr.
Damon has a fine class of students
studying for the ministry. Besides,
when the Chinese boys get out each
day Of the city schools they go TO this
school to study in their own language |
In connection with the school there
are Chinese mission schools and a Chi |
nese kindergarten.
"One Of the greatest and most in !
teresting in the city is the free kinder |
garten school, supported and managed |
by number of kind ladies. Here you |
find Portuguese, japanese and Hawai- /
ians all taught in the English langu- /
age and mixing together on the play
grounds. The Kawaiahao school is a
native girls school with over a hun
dred pupils and fine staff of teachers.
THE Anglican is another large
school of native and half-caste girls l.
taught by sisters of the church of Eng
land. st. Louis college, the largest
boys school on the islands, and the
Convent of the Sacred Heart, the larg-
EST girls school, are doing a great deal
20 educate native boys and girls. What
Honolulu wants and what she will yet
nave will be a splendid set of free kim
lergartens managed by the Board of
union of all the normal
.Iasses, all the ward schools preparing
or the High school, and the High {
school preparing for Punahou and Pu-
lahou elevated to a university, with
I'll the appliances of the best universe
les, while Kamehameha should be-
come still more a school for teaching {
rades and agriculture. There would
De no clashing of interests and the
schools would be much better graded
lnu still more efficient. :
''But of all these schools and appli- ,
lnces that which interests us most is
he characteristics of the many teach d
rs differing in appearance, manners, @
nd methods. We learn great lesson I
" studying Page or any other author.