The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-19
Col. Parker Talks on the MGChan-
les Of Writing.
GREAT ADVANTAGES OF ISLANDS
MRS. Parker on VoweIs and Conso-
nants The kindergarten.
Lecture this Evening.

1t was announced at the lectures OF
the Summer school yesterday that Col
Parker will deliver a lecture AZ s
o'clock this evening in Progress hall
on Child and Man. The general pub-
lie is invited. Mr.. Crawley's lectures
and class room work on agriculture be-
gan at s o'clock last evening in the
High School building.
The regular session work was ooened
at 8 o'clock yesterday morning with
Miss Allen on kindergartening. She
spoke entertainingly of general kind
ergarten work and then entered into
a discussion of particular cases and
the treatment which she has given
them in her own schools. The attend
ance at the lecture and the kfndergar-
ten was large.
Col Parker's lecture was opened with
a song and the Lords Prayer The
speaker paid a graceful compliment to
the teachers attending the Summer
school. He said that he had BEEN in
many States and had met thousands
of people during his life in educational
work and he had never enjoyed an
Institute or Summer school more than
the one now in session. He finds the
teachers interested and engrossed in
the higher education of children. He
finds them at his lectures responsive
and ready to help him. 1t was partly
to learn and partly to help the Island
teachers that he came to Hawaii.
The peculiar advantages in Hawaii
are wonderful to him. He feels that it
is a great benefit to children to be
born and grow up amid such surround
ings, so near nature and its wonder
full variations. He finds the teachers
alive to the problem of education and
using all suggestions advanced for the
help of teachers He said that the
great danger to teachers everywhere
is to consider that every effort has
been applied, that the resources have
been exhausted. The movement of
civilization is one of everlasting pro-
gress, it is never at rest 1t is the
same in Hawaii as it is in Chicago.
1t is a mistake to believe that the
question Of language, of the influence |
of environment differs from the ques- |
tiOn elsewhere materially. There are |
different phases here as the phases of |
every locality are peculiar to each, but |
the general problem is the same. |
Every large city has its educated !
children who must be taught first prin-
ciples. Often then the environment is
vicious and the difficulties are hard to
overcome.
People are now coming to discover
- l. |
age of education possible. When the
great, broad feeling comes that every
:hiId shall have the best training, then
he broad education begins. 1t is the
breadth of the ideal that determines
he progress. People are just break
ng ground for the future of educa-
ion. 1t is the greatest problem ever
presented to man. Nothing is set
led. During the last ten years more
books have been produced on educa-
ional matters than in a whole cen
ury before.
What we get from the past is not
method, not system, but the great spir-
t of the men who worked on the same
question that we are working on. That
s our inheritance. One of the best
definitions of education is the atti-
ude of the development of the soul
Owards truth. The spirit of true ed
Ication is finding what the children
leed and trying to supply that need.
Col. Parker said he is pleased with
he idea Of industrial education in Ha-
vail and he hopes to see it develop
md progress.
The exhibit Of the work of school
children which Col. Parker was to have
hOwn the Summer school has not ar
lived. The exhibit is to remain in
honolulu as representing the work in
4 collection is being made
If Hawaiian flora and minerals to ex-
hange with the Normal School in Chi
ago.
In speaking on the subject of the
morning Col. Parker said the true art
st never copies. The past has left a
sreat mass of work and experience
which, if applied to the children, would
wamp them. It is the duty Of the
eacher to evolve a principle from all
his information. from the new cOndi-
ions which confront the teacher as
dUcatiOn progresses. The teacher
houId be a maker Of his own system.
Col. Parker spoke at length on the