The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-15

world OF themselves. All the leading
races are here repress rted and the OPP
portunity 10 study social science, 70
trace the individuality of the races, is
TerhapS better here than any place else
In the world. The opportunity lies with
the teachers here to carry on lines OF
original investigation which will be of
the greatest value TO the men of the
scientific world. You will find in your
classes many races represented. What
an opportunity this affords for the
study and comparison of the races.
Take the children who come to school
fresh from their homes, where they
had no chance to grow like other chill
dren, but are in reality representatives
of the race from which they spring.
In the Chinese child you find the habit
OF mind that is Chinese, and the same
is true of the children of the japanese
and Hawaiian, as well as of the other
races There is thus afforded an OPP
portunity to study the differences be-
tween the races. The questions of tenn
permanent. of disposition, and the quail
fIcations for acquiring knowledge are
before the teacher. 1t seems to me that
the teachers here have a field for the
most interesting work. We learn from
some teachers that the Chinese pupils
are best In arithmetic; some teachers
say the Hawaiians are the brightest
pupils, while others say they are at
their best UP to the age of IA or 16
years.
IF the Department of Education
could furnish blanks for the collection
of data there might be secured some
very interesting scientific facts. Thus
there could be filed away data bearing
upon the capacity to learn, the ability
to analyze, the quality of the magma
ton and the power TO originate. That
race which has the power to initiate
always will move ahead. That race
which thinks and originates, from
which comes new ideas, will be found
coming to meet new opportunities or
emergencies, and will have the right of
way. Then there comes the question of
perseverance and persistence, and it
would be of the highest Importance to
secure data concerning the qualities of
the various peoples resident in the Ter
ritory.
THE Hawaiian community for gen.
erations Will be made up of the ele-
ments of the races which are now rep
resented here. We must live together
and it would be well for every one of
us, as we'll as for the Government to
various races now incorporated in our
body polite.
sit appears to me that the Hawaiian
Islands still attract more attention than
any one of the other of the Territories
of the United States and more than
some of the states. In my recent visit
to the mainland I found that this is
the case. 1t would be interesting 10
know what is ahead of us. 1t would
be a matter of great pride to us TO
know that our teachers OF all races
were doing this work which would at
tract the attention of the scientific
world. If you could become interested
in this work you would find it full of
thought and in time ii would have a
fascination for you in many ways. Let
us try to keep up to the best work that
is being done in the United States and
let us keep ahead of it, if we can"
After the applause had subsidized, Pro
fessor Wood moved a vote of thanks to
Governor Dole, which was passed, and
then it was announced that DIR. Rod
gers would speak next week upon phys
iology, and that at some time in Au-
gust Superintendent Atkinson would
address the teachers. Other speakers
will be secured from time TO time and
the course will be made as full of good
live subjects al possible.
The teachers went back to their work
and Governor Dole and several of the
visitors passed through the rooms and
inspected the line of work which is be-
ing followed by them during the Train
ing School term.