The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-07-12
LESSONS FROM CHILDREN DA MEETS SUDDEN DEATH LABOR IN THE CABINET QNAN
AT THE SUMMER
SCHOOL.
Miss Allen Conducts a Glass Before a
Large and Interested Audience
Mrs. Parker Discusses Voice.

Little children held the center of
the stage and were the focus Of inter
est during the first hour of this NOR
ning's session of the Summer S5r,ol.
Miss Allen had score of them of the
kindergarten age, at Progress hall at
$3.50 o'clock this morning, and con-
Quoted a regular kindergarten school.
She led them through kindergarten
songs and exercises by way Of Illus
trating the principles of kindergar-
ten training
The hall was well filled with an au-
dience that stood up in their interest
in the work going on before them.
These exercises lasted an hour.
After five minutes interms sion,
Colonel Parker began his lecture. us
ing the blackboard freely to illustrate
the ideas he presented. He said I've
had no hard and fast system or meth
cd of teaching to present. The nue
teacher was one who studied every
question pertaining to education. who
is ready to listen, to think over and
to elaborate. What he proposed was
to present hypothesis, working ny
potheses. and then to test them.
He had made the statement. he said,
and discussed it, that word has one
function and only one, that is to recall
to consciousness an image or assist
in recalling an image.
His second statement was that all
reading consists in images, all lea ~
ing to read consists in the function
ing of words. Gradually the lecturer
led up to the law of association-wlen
tXxA irno in, -,
immediate succession or when tn ey
are simultaneous, thereafter one of
these images coming in recalls the
other. This is the law of recollection
or memory.
All words are learned under one
law and one alone, the coming togeth-
er of two images, the image of the
word and the appropriate image it
represents. So teaching a word with
no meaning means the teaching of a
word that is of no earthly use.
Every word is learned by acts of
association. That may not be effec-
tive in one act of association, and it
must be repeated over and over again.
| \ child learns an oral word many
times by repetition. The oral word
is a complicated thing, more so than
the written word. The stronger the
image the quicker he will learn the
word.
Reading unites images. Observation
goes a step beyond mere seeing, hear
ing, touching, etc, these images. The
object acts on my consciousness, for a
second, or minutes, and observation
is continued action of an object or
consciousness. The image grows by
observation.
Children should never read any
thing unless it is good-good for him
not for you; good literature is Shat
which sweetens the childs life, not
your life.
Mrs. Parker followed in a forty min
ute lecture on the voice, its mechan.
ism, its purpose and the principles Of
its use. While the lecture was pro
found, though simple, direct, though
I discursive and luXuriant in its illus.
tration, and convincing, though not
polemic it received the greatest charm
from Mrs. Parker's own voice, which
illustrated and enforced the princi
pies enunciated and was it's own po
tent argument.
At 11:25 o'clock Colonel Parker
again proceeded with the development
of the theme of his previous lectures
The hour and half of the after
noon session was taken up with dis
cussions of the subjects of agricul
ture, literature, grammar, tonic so
ia, arithmetic, theory and practise
and methods in reading.