The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-17
Sons Of the Orient Apply Them
selves to Their Books.
HAVE GREAT APPLICATION
Research Club Evening on EduCa-
ton IN Hawa1-AgrICultu
Proposed for Native.

At the home OF Rev. w. NJ. and Mrs.
Kincaid last evening, the Young Mems
Research Club held the most interest
ing and best attended meeting of the
present season. About thirty members
were out for the occasion. Rev. Mr..
Kincaid received. The residence of the
pastor of Central Union is a hospitable
home. At the conclusion of the pro-
gram of the evening, the hosts caused
refreshments to be served and de-
lightful half hour social was had
Professor Edgar Wood, of the High
School, gave the first paper of the even
ing. 1t was a we'll considered essay on
the education of the Hawaiian. Profess
sor Wood analyZed the traits of the
races congregated here. For the Ha-
waiian he advocated an agricultural
education He said that in their growth
as nation, they had reached the farm
ing plane and that it would be perfect
ly natural for them and best for them
to turn to tilling the soil, as they were
doing when the Islands were discover
merce and internal development. Pro-
fessor Wood had the highest hopes for
the successful outcome of the recently
inaugurated work of teaching the Ha-
waiian youth scientific o. moS'er
farming.
Professor Scott, principal of the High
School, gave a charming talk of half
an hour, bubbling over with fact and
logic and with tint of anecdotes. He
was on the program to speak of the
education of the Chinese and Japanese
in Hawaii. The professor told some
thing of his work as an educator in the
schools of Japan, under the auspices of
the government there. The pupils came
to their lessons wearing two swords, as
they belonged to the two-sword caste.
The native system of education had
been for scholar to be taught first
how to make the characters and some
of the characters had seventy distinct
marks. They went to second teacher
to get the pronunciation of the marks
and to third to learn the meaning OF
u.
anese spent double the time that an
American would use in going through
a public school, preparatory school
and then taking a university course.
The japanese and Chinese, Professor
Scott declared unreServedly, and nav
ing all nationalities in mind, were the
greatest students on earth. They never
cheat at exams" and are always cour-
teous. The Japanese We're unstable
They changed teachers, changed
schools and changed studies. The Chi
nese had in a marked degree, the quail
ity of application. In the faculty OF
observation, both races were licking.
The brightest scholars III all studies In
the schools of this country are the Chi
nese and Japanese. The Chinese stick
to plunge from an ordinary knowledge
of English to deep research In Japan
a boy of ten or twelve, would take up
works on international laws, for IN
stance and commit to memory hun
dreds of pages of the book. The speak
er SAID that the CnlneSe anu JdpdhoS0
children being here must be educated
by the state All should be educated IN
the English and the plan or even
thought of separate schools could not
be entertained.
Professor Thompson, principal OF
Kamehameha school for Hawaiian
boys, spoke of the efficiency of the new
course in agriculture at his institution,
but did not believe there would be large
results soon. The boys took kindly TO
the work upon learning that they could
use their heads as we'll as their hands
| in il.
The general discussion brought out
various expressions.