The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-13

standard, as far as meeting the needs
of the people is concerned Coming TO
the time Of the organization of the
public school system we find William
Richards separating himself in man
ner from the mission i'm order that he
might enter the employ of the Govern
ment. at the head of the schools. Yet
in a truer sense ne did not and could
not separate himself from the work
in which he had been engaged with
his brethren. He only SEPARATED him
self from the mission in the sense that
he undertook a separate part Of the
work they had been doing together,
and henceforth derived his support
from the Government.
Mr. Richards made a preliminary
report setting forth educational condi-
lions at his time, and a regular report
setting forth educational needs and
aims. In this latter he dilated upon
the value of education in increasing
the efficiency and wage-earning power
of the people, looking forward with
enthusiasm to the prospect that
through education men would become
able to earn twenty-five cents a day
each. His career was cut short by
death before he had time to show how
/ he proposed to redeem the promises
which he was making in the name of
Education.
| Another missionary. Richard Arm
strong. then separated himself for the
| schoolwork. He organized the indus
! trial work Of the common schools and
developed it to a wonderful degree
With such teachers as he could get fol
forty to sixty dollars year he brought
liz about that some of the schools pro-
duced by manual labor three times the
salaries of their teachers. And beside:
the common schools, special schools
such as Lahaina Seminary and the
manual labor boarding schools receiv
led all possible announcement and as
sistance Everywhere he went he en-
lcouraged industry.
i have spoken rather fully of th'
Industrial work done in connection
with this one mission. because 1t Il
necessary to take an example. Start
ling out without much regard to educa
tional theories, these missionaries pro
lceeded to give the people the help the.
needed to take their next step in ad
! vance in the matter of civilization. Ii
doing this they anticipated what i
now one of the latest and most ad
/, vanced of theories, that ii is work o
education to help men get on in tn
world These missionaries took par
of their time to help the people ge
better employment and more of tn
temporal comforts of Christian civil
Il
: abandon their high calling
Acting upon this theory the commits
:, sioner of education, and not the wa
department or the interior department
: introduced the reindeer into Alaska
! This was held to be proper educationa
! work in that it gave the people tn
means of using one more of the re
q sources Of nature, namely, the Arcti
moss. thus giving them a better Twin
and enabling them to live better.
Z Recently 1 met a young man froI
: Alaska who spoke With great enthus
I asm of a missionary who taught h
: pupils to make oil stoves with a dral
e to carry off the smoke, which formerl
made the people characteristicall
z sore-eyed. The same man also taugi
l. his pupils to freeze thin cakes of cles
n ice. to be used as we use window glas
vi So these missionaries throughout IL
z world have introduced and are intr
l. ducing new standards of education
:; be used everywhere. They have just
lie fed the prominence they often give
1t Industrial work, and is now everywhe