The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-15
STUDY Of
THE RACES
Gov. Dole Urges
Teachers to
Progress.
SCIENTIFIC DATA
MAY BE SECURED
Multiplicity of Races Gives Excel
lent Opportunity for Original
Research by instructors.

- RIGINAL research along lines
q = which will prove of the first in
" terest to scientists the world
over, was urged upon the teach
ers and pupils of the Training School,
Yesterday by Governor Sanford B. Dole.
The occasion was the first Of a series OF
addresses before the school, and the re-
! ception accorded the Governor and the
interest shown in his remarks indicated
the thoughtfulness with which the
teachers of the Territory are entering
upon their work.
The school room used as the assembly
hall OF the Normal School was filed
lust after noon. when the hour set ror
the address arrived. The teachers ana
pupils were spending the hour in sing
ing. many native songs being rendered
with effect and feeling when the arrival
of Governor and Mrs. Dole was an
nounced by the entrance of Superin-
tendent of Instruction Atkinson and
Principal Wood. Governor Dole was
given a warm greeting and was at once
introduced by Mr.. Atkinson, who said
1T is our intention to nave an ao-
dress to the pupils and teachers OF the
the continuance of the school. 1t is in
tended that some well known person
shall talk to you upon a topic of gen
eral interest, the first of the speakers
being Governor Dole"
The Governor, after expressing his in
terest in the work and his regret that
official duties prevented him from see
ing more intimately the work OF the
teachers. said:
"Education is not what il was when
/ was a schoolboy. There has been an
important change which has proved OF
the greatest benefit. When L was
young the greater part of the work OF
the children was the committing go
memory of their lessons. Now the i'm
portant thing is to induce the children
TO think They must be led along lines
which will induce them to understand,
to receive impressions, to analyze them
and finally to assimilate knowledge.
The memorizing of facts is method as
old as knowledge. The Chinese have
followed that system for a thousand,
perhaps for five thousand years
Modern education is more scientific.
Formerly the course of study in the
, schools and colleges was called getting
an education. Now we find that the in
struction in such institutions is simply
preparing the way Tor the youth "
leave with a mind trained SO that he
may get his education. The trained
mind is the tool which may be used as
Is the skilled hand or arm of the me-
chanic, in the accomplishment of what
Is desired TO perform. 1t is thus school
ed that you may use it and go out into
! the world and make your way.
THE Island of Oahu is known in the
scientific world for it's great variety of
tree shells. It furnishes an opportu-
nifty for study to which scientific men
have had their attention called, and
the subject has proved of the highest
interest. Within the space of a few
miles one may follow one family OF
shells and trace the development of the
family furnishing one of the most in
teresting opportunities to watch the
evolution OF it.
THE Hawaiian Islands make little