The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-07-11
TEACHING THE TEACHERS.M HAWAIIAN |NVENT|ONI
COLONEL PARKER SAYS WORDS
OF GREETING.
President Dole Makes Introductory
Address-The Summer School Opens
Brilliantly-Classe to be Organized

Brilliantly-Classes to be Organized
With an attendance that completely
! filled the admirable new Progress hall
| and an enthusiasm alike complimenta-
ry to Colonel Parker and auguring
well for successful session, the Sum-
mer School, under the auspices of
the National Board of Education, OPP
ened this morning.
There were present teachers from
all the Islands, both from the govern
ment schools and other educational
institutions, besides great many who
are not teachers but take an active in
terest in educational matters. The
reputation of Colonel and Mrs. Par
ler and Miss Allen doubtless had
much to do in attracting so large
gathering.
PROGRESS HALL.
This mornings session of the Sum
mer school is the first public gather
ing to be held in Progress hall Mr.
Des<y is to be congratulated on the
character and size of this dedicatOry
gathering as the public of Honolulu
is to be congratulated on the provi-
sion of such an admirable hall for
such purposes. The light is excellent.
streaming from wide windows on
two sides at the rear of the audience
and through skylight of mellowing
yellow cathedral glass.
THE OPENING.
Note books were much in evidence,
for this is to be summer school of
work, if the plans for it, and the. en-
thusiasm of Colonel Parker are any
indication.
The opening exercises were in ar
tistic simplicity, if Colonel Parller's
statement that simplicity is the high
est principle of art, be correct.
Inspector General of Schools Town
send introduced President Dole as
the Sempronius Gracious of the Ha-
waiian Islands, the man who has stood
for Agrarian interests for years.
PRESIDENT DOLE'S ADDRESS.
President Dole said that for years
he had been dissatisfied with the cur
1iculum of our schools. 1t was too
little emancipated from the methods
of the missionary fathers, who COM
ing here with burning zeal for ed
ucation had Immediately begun the
teaching of the elementary branches
Very soon they established the High
school or college at Lahainaluna,
where boys scarcely out of heathen-
ism were taught Latin, Greek, Hebrew
comic sections and calculus. They
graduated poor surveyors, clergymen
who could not use their Greek, law
yers and Office seekers who frequent
ly ended up as yard men, and poor
ones at that
WHAT WILL COME.
We had gone on too much in the
same way, with some improvements of
course but failing to teach the chill
dren who were mostly Hawaiians and
Portuguese, anything that was real
ly useful to them in practical way,
and thus throwing them upon the
community at great disadvantage.
1t was a great pleasure to him to
know that much attention was to be
given in this summer school to ag-
: riculture and manual training. Ka-
mehameha school had for a long time
! taught manual training and was now
to begin teaching agriculture. He
hoped to see a school established that
would have in its basement, room for
blacksmith forge, carpenters tools,
garden tools, and when boys would
be so taught that they could create
nursery of coffee trees, would know
} how to transplant and trim them and
conduct a coffee plantation.
AGRARIAN POLICY.
1t had been the policy of the gov
ernment for several years, he said, to
establish people of small means on
7 small plantations. This policy had
| been successful, and many families
had thus been put in the way of be-
S ing self-supporting, Independent, con-
: servative citizens. For the govern
ment's twenty and fifty acre planta-
tions there had been applications
| from Hawaiians, Americans, Portu-
guese and Russians. But he had yet
to learn of an application by a grad
uate of our schools. The reason was
5 that they had received no training
: for that sort of life; no enthusiasm
!, for agriculture had been instilled in
! their minds. He hoped the present
!, summer school would make a depart
: ure in this direction.
!, PARKER AND DOLE AGREE.
He had feared that his views might
. run counter to those of Colonel Par
ker. But he was happy to say that
from few minutes conversation with
him this morning, he had found that
in many respects at least, they agreed
: The same problems were presented in
the United States, so that in cutting
loose from old traditions and making
o a new departure we are perhaps only
leading our great sister republic.
S President Dole's remarks were gen
4 erously applauded, and an enthusias
tic greeting welcomed Colonel Parker
COLONEL PARKER'S WORDS.