The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-15
Successful Island Business Man
Writes Of Education.
He CRlTIClSES CERTAIN SYSTEMS
HIS Idea Of Mans Tasks-Students
Who are Helpless a, Twenty.
Views on Youth.

cacy, as there seems TO he mucn con-
Germ felt by the thoughtful. kindheart-
ed people as to the future OF the Ha-
waiian race. which truly seems serious.
IL is believed his schooling has some
thing TO do with his future gloomy out
look, which is quite possible.
Agriculture is proposed Is an i'm
provement If added to- our present
schools. but this IS one OF the impos-
sible things, as II could reach only a
small part of the people. Any effective
means that would instruct pupils to-
| look to and rely on Mother Earth. the /
machine shop, the mine. counting
house. etc. for employment and sub
sistence would be a big Improvement |
upon our present methods OF schooling |
/ the youth OF these Islands. and partiC- |
| ularly so with the young Hawaiian.
The earth is the mother OF man. and
TO her directly or indirectly We should
look for our physical comforts. Every
i young person should be instructed
where his food comes from. his cloth
i ing, his earthly comforts. and how
they are all produced by labor. All
should be encouraged to- look forward
to. work for. and aim ut sometime own
J ing a piece of lani Tor n home. where
he could always find employment
working under his own dictation and
become independent his own boss. not
compelled to seek elsewhere for en-
ployment. working out others ideas. \
nation of home-owueTs Is much in adj
vance of n nation OF renters. so far at
least. as independence and home i'm
provement is concerned. Renters don't
have much stimulGlt to- improve their
homes.
\ native or any other boy kept ut
school and his every want supplied
without labor during his entire youth.
is a poor. unfinished specimen OF hui
mainly to- turn loose in the world to-
get his living. He is unqualified to bat
tie with the storms OF life. for which
his friends were 81 long endeaVoTing
to- qualify him by examining his mind
with theory at the neglect OF practical
usefulness. \ young man thus
schooled away from useful labor and
compelled TO get his own living at the
age OF 20 years. his schooling having
put false notions OF mis- Importance in
to his head and laziness into his body:
at this stage of mis- existence It will
be the exception Ii lac takes kindly tC
any productive labor. If he should. ne
may be a producer of wealth and val
liable citizen. but ii he takes the oppo'
site course and becomes an associate u
the saloon, the low lotteries, the gam
bling dens and Jthcr vile holes. mi.
schooling in morals and the virtue q
labor. if any was given him. proves
failure. because he was schooled ava!
from labor. away from earning hi
bread by the sweat of his face. Hi
schooling causes him to- look upon ply
steal labor as only for Chinese. Japan
csc and low-down people OF other races
but not for an educated gentleman lik
him, so he persistently concludes {
live without labor. as he has bee
schooled the first twenty years OF hi
life. The right thing to- do for the ris
= ing generation evidently would he
= instruct them To begin to- wait upo
q themselves and their fathers and moth
- ers in many things ut an early ag'
thus earning. in raTt ut least. the
bread by learning h.w to- satisfy hor
orably their physical requirement.
- Then they would know how to go fol
= ward in after-life. u should not ma
= ter what the wealth or standing
. their parents may De. or pow man
9 servants they can command: ever
Q youth. from 6 years up. should
. taught self-dependeace and not to- loo
= to their elders. their servants or the
- parents money for assistance. as III
- may be a long road with many a croo
anything for his physical comfort al
heavy hills to climb. 4 youth brougl
up without being taught how to-
anything for its physical comfort NJ
- support IS one to be pitied when h
- supports drop away, which frequent
= happens even among the wealthy. II
. Hawaiian youth scaooled and maj
. tanned without labor in our priva
} q schools find their support drop avj
as soon as they leave school. TIL
comes the tug OF war. they havii
nothing to eat and don't know how
earn IL, either by lajnring for others
producing IL from the elements.
\ short time ago | was converst
a with a Hawaiian gentleman while
few a steamer upon the schooling OF {
c a Hawaiian youth. He was emphatic
his opinion that Ihe Hawaiian you
hip were wrongly schoOled. rs they We
not schooled to earn their living.
pointed TO about n dozen young II
waiians singing in i distant part OF {
steamer. He said: They are fTC
- school, but they don't know an
thing. They can sing, but don't kn'
To how TO support themselves. ! had
boy in that school four years. He q
. peared we'll schooied in the books. D
A. after leaving school he came home. h
!, been there ever since. and ! have
:, support him. He + now past 20. /
= knows->othing about labor OF any III
q for supporting himself" This We
e lieve TO be a fair sample 81 the N
:. jority OF Hawaiian young men school
:. without physical iahsr. and surely
:. future for such Is gloomy indeed.
:. wonder friends OF the race begin
. feel despou-ent oyar the matter.
= \ similar complaint has recon
:. been made by an American India
= Geronimo. the famous Apache Chiei.
!: an Indian congress. i reported TO h1
said: These warriors are m1k'
=. - fools of themselves. For years