The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-04-28
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thouli ROT amply NNN| .N' r'h'NI m ~
no use shaYE,r bat tha. % fails 10 d,
OF the ho.' u-e The building ,tsc,i
gives credit 90 minister. 10 architects
10 teacher ana - the taxpayer. sho
are willing 10 pay for D.
The ch.Id,u will d" instructed with.
in It's walls. as they have been here.
toforo Instructed. IN the ruhiments. and
more than that. through the intelligent
energy Of the principal commendable
without measure, they will learn much
about the world and the mic" things
that are IN Il. and about the pleasure
OF having these things. And 50 lon.
as the pupils remain in the school
they learn TO despise the sayages who
have no wants, and whose measure of
happiness is the bow and arrow and a
hut. Their education will urge them
to lead the lives Of civilized people
who want a thousand things that the
savages never heard Of or do not care
for. or as the French traveller express
ed It: "Ah, you teach the sayagcs A..
y. Chen he wants trowsers and a
gold watch"
While this system Of education Is
applied in this and the other school
houses, the children OF the Anglo
Saxons, the Portuguese. the natives.
the Chinese and the Japanese are. daily
and most faithfully. instructed 50 as TO
surely and swiftly develOpe wants
which are expensive things TO possess.
Prof. Geo. Harris admirably OK
presses the idea in these words:
Progress. then. consists in the in
crease OF wants. or. which is the same
thing. in the development OF man in
the consciousness and satisfaction Of
capacity"
One want plants the germ Of an
other want. or there is no progress.
These wants are tn" ladders on which
We mount"
The school hOus" is therefor" a de-
vice which inevitably generates wants
which cost money But no system OF
education Is satisfactory or Is u.cful
which does not. along side Of its
development of wants. educate "a well
in the practical ways Of supplying
these WANT. It is unw.se and rather
absurd to create thirst and give
neither water to QucnCh it, or show
where ii can be found.
Those who undertook 10 make a wise
solution of the negro problem in the
South. after the ciJsc Of the Civil war,
were "inspirod" to see that the educa-
ton OF the children. especially OF the
laboring classes. would be a mis-
chlevOus affair II 1t did not include with
the education of wants. tn" education
al.o in the practical way Of supplying
those wants. II they taught the child
supreme necessity of teaching them
how to put a better house in its place.
II the children were to be enlightened
on the subject Of wants they should
also be enlightened on the equally i'm
pOrtant matter of the best ways Of
getting cash TO supply the wants.
There are in these Islands. some
thousands of children, especially the
Portuguese, who are now educated to
have wants, which their parents did
not have because they were ignorant.
This education units them for any in
dustrial occupation that does not return
the means for decent living" which
involves a qualification Of these wants.
A shrewd and educated plantation man
agcr said. last year: The education OF
the children of the people who work
on the plantations makes mischief and
discomfort. There Is but one great in
dustry here. and its pcrity depends
upon cheap labor, and cheap labor and
education don't pull together"
In order TO make these schools of