The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-21
Nineteenth Annual Meeting Of
Teachers Union.
SOME SUMMER SCHOOL LESSONS
Reviews of Notable Lectures Given.
interest in the kindergarten.
Papers.
Especial Correspondence.)

Union school on the 7th of October.
The program had been arranged by
Miss Lilinoe Hapai, Miss Hill and Mr..
McCluckey.
Rev. Desha opened with prayer, after
which ten girls from the Hilo Select
school sang chorus.
Miss Dillon had paper on the kind
ergarten work of the Summer school
She opened with a strong eulogy on
Miss Aliens personality and her great
enthusiasm as a consecrated kinder
garten teacher. Teaching children is
not her life work but her very life.
Such is not a matter of patience, but
sympathy. Progressive kindergarten
work is threatened by too great a re-
coil from the time when grOWn-up peO-
pie only had rights to a time of
'children's rights" alone. A wise
kindergarten has too much love for
the little ones" to indulge them in
what must inevitably bring suffering
to themselves and others. They should
not be shielded from the consequences
of their own wrong doing and if need
be let them find out for themselves
that tine way of transgressOrs IS
hard" An ounce Of wise training and
guidance does more good than pound
of punishment Cooperation of par
ents should be sought to get the best
results from the work. Self-cOnScious-
ness must be trained away. Do not
tire little ones in insisting on gram
NAUTICAL construction. Kindergartens
should be artistically decorated, but
not prOfusely. One picture at a time is
best as it secures undivided attention.
A paper on Col. Parker's lectures was
read by Miss Coan. Before coming to
Honolulu he had spent year in try
ing to find the educational needs of our
Island people If he could help to fur
ther education in Hawaii it would re-
pay only in small part the debt of graf
itude the United States owes to the
Hawaiian Islands, for sending her such
a noble educator as Gen. Armstrong.
He believes firmly in the individuality
of teachers. Methods should be simple
and adapted to the circumstances of
the pupil whom the teacher must thor
oughly know. Communion with nature
should be the basis of all education.
From such an intercourse the child
when he enters school possesses the
elements of all the sciences. The
teachers sphere is to perceive this and
lead the child onward III the path of
nature already entered.
Images must be created in the mind
and then the child Will talk because he
wants to express himself. The written
word is associated with the image
which makes reading simply imaging.
The meaning of a word is the image it
recalls. Schools should have their own
printing press and make their own
reading material.
The study of geography is a wide
field and important and should be pur-
sued in some such way as suggested by
the course of study for Hawaiian Pub
lie schools. In the line of excursions
teachers here have rare opportunities
to Introduce even the youngest to
systematic study of the natural sci
ences Every school and family
should have a sand pile.
Industrial work was insisted upon.
Let the children make such things as
they are interested in. Col Parker
had a display of a large number of
articles made drawn or painted by the
pupils of Chicago Normal school.
The Gen. Armstrong Industrial AS
ISOLATION, of which Mr.. Wood OF Ho-
noluIu is president and Miss Deyo OF
Hilo vice president, was organized to
further this work in the schools.
All that was said by Col Parker ex-
pressed deep feeling and a most earnest
desire to impress the vital Importance
of knowing the soul of the child.
Mrs. X. A. Lyman entertained the
meeting with a Hawaiian Legend about
Ohialaka and Uakuahina of Olaa, and
the sister trees into which they We're
transformed.
Miss Deyo read a paper which was
a terse summary Of Mrs. Parkers work
at the Summer School. The true edu-
Gator is careful to see that the child
develops physically as we'll as mental
". Vigorous outdoor life is essential
to the proper development Of the tene-
ment of the soul, which voices itself
through the body. Dress is too often
allowed TO interfere with natural ex-
preston. Many physical and vocal de-
fects can be remedied by bringing into
proper action muscles which have been
unused. Even a hollow and narrow
chest by determined effort may ac-
uuire that prominence which is the ex-
ponent of the soul within. The aesthe-
tic side of childhood is stimulated in
to activity Dy renneQ associations,
hence the Importance Of culture in
teachers.
The pupils of the Union school sang
in chorus Hawaii Fair" which was
very much appreciated.
Harriet Hapai gave a recitation en-
titled school Girls Trials"
An interesting and instructive paper
on citizenship was read by Mr.. Levi
LYMAN He who trains bOvS and girls
to be good citizens is pursuing a noble
calling. To know the rights of cit
izeDship, how enforced and protected,
how righted if violated or trampled up