The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-14
THE schools
OF HAWAII
How They Impress
an Observer
at Buffalo.
VALUE OF THE
LOCAL EXHIBIT
What the Display Shows Of Good
Work Being Done for
Island Youth.

l"HE Buffalo Express says: How
i wall has kept abreast of the
thoroughly the Territory of Ha-
most advanced educational thought of
the times can be realized only upon
making visit to the school exhibit of
Hawaii in the government building at
ranged by Miss Rose c. Dawson, of
Honolulu, who remained in the city
| since the opening of the exposition I'M
a week or so ago, when she started on
the return journey to Hawaii. Miss
Dawson has left an able assistant in
| charge of the exhibit in the person of
/, Miss Petronella Murray a Buffalo
woman, who for several years mas
taught in LIE Couteulx St. Mary's In
stitution for the Deaf.
Hawaii has a brilliant record in her
schools. With all her shortcomings
| she has entered the galaxy or the
Union with her excellent school system,
which is beginning to be self-support-
| ing, SO far as the teachers are con-
Icerned, which is training it's own teach
ers to carry out its ideals. and sys-
item which is solving problems that are
now troubling other States.
7 As Alatau 7. Atkinson, Superintend-
i ent of Public Instruction in the Terri
/, tory of Hawaii, says: The future of
Hawaii lies in it's educational system.
Spoil that system and the future prog
ress will be thrown back some years.
1t is the present harmonious system
which, in spite of it's defects, has
brought about the present good results.
Apart from party strife, the education
of the Territory will rise and continue
to rise, assimilating the many adven-
turous races which find a home in it's
generous bosom and founding that flu
| ture State which its pioneers look for
ward to being the glory and gem of
the North Pacific Ocean,
One of the greatest difficulties with
which the teachers of Hawaii have to
contend is the diversity OF races, near
i Ely every school having pupils of AM
erican, British, German, Japanese, Chi
nese, italian, Hawaiian, part Hawaiian
and Portuguese parentage. About one
half of the teachers are American, and
a number of the remainder are part
Hawaiian, although there are some OF
lother nationalitieS.
The exhibit of school work includes
number and story work In primary
grades, writing, drawing and painting
Some excellent water-coior sketches
from nature. done by very young pu
pills, are shown.
The composition work is especially
interesting. Before starting to write
composition, the pupil draws pictur'
of his subject, and. if materials art
available, colors his picture The com
4 lposition is profusely Illustrated in pei
! and pencil throughout. A great dea
of information of the life of the Ha
: waiians may be CLEANED from reading
some of these compositions, many o
them bearing upon the sports and pas
times of the native children, chic
7 among which is diving and swimming
The literary course is similar TO tina
of the schools of the United States
/ but the manual training course is NOR
\ defensive. The schools of Hawaii seer
= to have solved the Industrial probler
I in favor of sewing and agriculture
i work, with few doing hala and car
/ penter work.
> The agricultural work thus far seem
= to have been chiefly in the way of i'm
Z proving the appearance of the school
= yard. The children are taught 10 oil
\ and plant trees and seed, to take car
y of what they plant, to know the ns
= ture of the soil and what insects al
I destructive to certain kinds of vegeta
Z ttion and the method of getting ri
! of such insects.
Sewing has been an important fee
z ture in the schools of the Islands. TT
Z exhibit shows that this work is begu
! with the plain stitch, going thence
\ patching, darning, hemstitching, blu
tonholing, gathering, ruffling, putin
Z on bands and even to making dc
Z clothes and underwear and dresses II
! lchildren An infants dress made wit
\ a drawn yoke and ruffles. beautiful
2 worked, is attracting no small amour
Z lof attention from the visitors to Il
Z Iexhibit.
! But that is not all the industri
VI training that the girls enjoy. Hat, IA
4 mat and basket weaving, crochetin
= embroidery and, in fact. any educ
tional facilities which help to devel'
head, heart and hand simultaneous
have been used in the schools with e
cellent result
Among the many pretty and usef
= articles that are shown are dain
= fans made of bamboo and BIRDS ne
- ferns, finely woven hats and about ty
dozen samples of braids from WIFI
Hawaiians make hats. some pretti
carved boxes and large mats.