The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-19
HAWAIIAN
EDUCATION
Normal and Training
Schools.
WHERE GOOD WORK IS DONE
A Visit to Some of the SeryiceabIe
Institutions Our School Sys-,
TEN Embraces.

The general government and the liberal
minded people of the Hawaiian Islands
long ago recognized the ACCESSIBILITY of
cooperation for the provision Of a SPLEEN
did patrimony for the public schools
Large sums OF money have been granted
for their maintenance and the children of
each and every nationality have equal ad-
vantages and facilities for acquiring an
education. Many of the school buildings
OF Honolulu have great pretentions to
architectural beauty; they are substan-
TALLY built and well adapted to their pur-
poses and several have spacious and we'll
kept grounds which add materially to
their interest in the eyes of strangers
That the Normal and Training school
buildings do not cater to the public taste
In architecture, does not in the least de-
educational institution. In the long low
main building.-in what is known as the
Royal school grounds,-there is much that
is attractive In the wide-open French WIN
dows, the lanai class, the glass tanks
and small aquariums containing the tur-
ties, fish, water plants, mosquito breed
ing grounds, etc, in broad view on the
OF the day upon such subjects. The nat
ural advantages. accruing from this one
might almost say "open-air'' system of
sc hooling, VIII unquestionably result In a
higher degree of physical, as well as
mental, superiority. The examining sys-
tenn, with the usual concomitants of an
over-crowded school-room and over
vltiated air are entirely done away with
under the more natural state of affairs
in Honolulu's Normal and Training
school.
The attendance at this institution is good
Mr.. Wood. the principal of the Normal
school, said yesterday that the number in
the training department is 2l0 and in the
normal department about fifty with thir-
teen regular teachers as well as specialists
for music, drawing, map-drawing, etc.
In the Normal school department are
taught pedagogy or the science and art
of teaching and Mr.. Wood emphasized
the word art" for he said 1t was more
of an art than many people supposed.
The other departments are: English,
mathematics, geography, agriculture,
woodwork or cardboard work. Each
pupil" said Mr.. Wood, makes his own
apparatus, sewing chests, glass tanks.
chain measures and metric measures. He
is also instructed In Hawaiian mat weav-
ing. baskets and fans: that this beautiful
Industry of the country may not die out.
Pupils take this work away with them
| TO other schools when they leave here.
They also learn dressmaking in a limited
way; many of the children sew very nice
lly" Some work was produced and shown
and it compares favorably with that OF
the large schools in the United States
Eyes, we teach clay work." said Mr.
Wood. land paper cutting, charcoal work
lsketching, chalk modelling and all 'ex'
Ipression work Our children are taught
that when they have thought they mus
try to express it." Truly this seems the
art of illustration in embryo and al
though, strictly speaking, it belongs tC
the elementary grade, yet It has a certain
distinct place In teaching arti
'If child" continued Mr.. Wood, ma:
thoughts, our aim is to get 1t to expires:
these thoughts in a number of different
ways. IL possible, and for that purpose
lessons in expression of thought are giver
orally ard In writing. We place only thu
correct form before the child and by en-
lphasizing the correct. we hope to have
the Incorrect drop from their minds. In