The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-29
ON CHILD STUDY
Mrs. Parker Talks of Moth.
ers and Their Influence.
Plans For General Armstrong In
daY-Last Session Tonight.

Col Parker's last lecture viii be given
in Progress haH this evening. His talk
Will be to educators and all interested
in education and will not be solely for
teachers. The problem of the best educa-
ton for children of Hawaii is an import
ant one and the Industrial Institute and
the coordination Of agricultural and in
dustrial work with school work furnishes
a solution of the local difficulties. Col.
Parker Will point out this evening some
lines of work for the home and the school
along these lines. They are applicable
to Hawaiians and to Europeans, and As
iatics as well. This morning Mrs. Park
will talk on Dress" at her last lee
ture of the session. Mrs. Parker ;
lectures have been intensely interesting
and valuable and her subject for thiS
morning was selected by request.
Yesterday Col. Parker talked of plans
TO pursue in the schools along industrial
lines. The discussion became general
and many suggestions, handed in by the
teachers, were read and commented on.
They all suggested lines of work which
could the most profitably be pursued with
the mixed character of the pupils and
the material. Every teacher, Col. Parker
said, should join the Institute and work
faithfully. 1t would show the Govern
ment and the people that the work is val
liable and that honest effort is being made
to give instruction which will direct the
energies and interest of the children
along practical lines. He said it would
not be a wise plan to distribute tools and
land and plants indiscriminately. The
teacher must be ready and prepared to
give the children good instruction. The
great movement toward interest in in
dustrial pursuits cannot come immediate
". 1t viii come school by school He
advised an exchange of ideas and the
crea ton of a collection of results of this
work in the schools.
Col. Parker said the teachers must not
expect to produce things in the schools of
any commercial value. He was not sure
whether it is a good plan to make things
in the schools to sell But that was not
the point which he wished TO raise. It
was that if the Islands can show that
Horticulture is the basis they will DO
more good in industrial work than Massa-
chusetts has ever done. None of this
work should be taught in isolated form
1t is correlative with literary work.
Mrs. Parker talked on Child Study. She
gave a history of the efforts in Chicago
of women to break down old prejudices,
and root out old ideas of how schools
should be conducted, of what their school
room furniture should consist. Of how
has been largely the efforts of the moth
ers who are at last becoming vitality in
terested in what should constitute
child'S education according to his need
and his personality. She said the most
favorable and economic time for train
ing children is before they are nine years
old This is the receptive age, the child
is taking in things and forming concepts
After 9 the child begins to generalize. a
logical preparation of q course OF STUDY
is one thing what a child needs is an
other. She spoke of the care of nervous
children and emphasized the great need
of proper exercise and proper dress