The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-13
ATKIASON'S ADDRESS
TO SUMMER SCHOOL
In Excelsior" He Tells the Teachers Many
Things About What Their Work for
Education Should Be.
eCOntinued from Friday

The work which you have been dom
has been n the main, pleasant WORK
4. II has led into what / may call II.
softer paths Of scholastic training. Aft
er the power OF understanding English
I speech has been acquired, our zrorL
has run into paths through the shrub
i bsriss Of literature. paths which pass
ed the most brilliant Of flower beds
the efhorescent stories Of the Pacific
the pure lily Ike tales OF the North
| the exuberant fancy or ancient Greece
/ the hard cold bIooded fables Of Rome
and the rica and oriental history %
Judaism In one form or another you
have al taught this IN the Language
lesson Some Of you may not have ap-
preciated the beauty OF = ha- YOU were
teaching. but The less0l hgs been
taught. and learned Not only this but
under our system OF education We teach
the beauties OF nature We show the
flower. We trace The progress OF the
SEED til II reaches the flower There i
nothing that Is beautiful thsz We DO 1ot
use for our teaching. In point u fact
I verify believe that this es1aetic side
OF our work is what makes Il SO popu-
-
for al their shortcomings our pub
lie schools are popular
L Is hard 70 come with q cold
douche upon 50 comfortable si1ua-
ton I thoroughly appreciate what
has bean done. and what Is being done-
4Iiunina pars fui 20 alter a ATTN
author I have been, myself very
small worker in the same held. But
the douche must come II we are GO
ing 10 have advanced education ws
must grid our Ioins. throw away child
ISL and pretty things and meet the
subject OF cold clear mathematics.
When one gets on 20 the plane OF
mathematics. one reaches the plane Of
abstract reasoning There Is no poetry
ahoUt mathematics Other sciences Al
i0T OF by-paths, mathematics allows
q only one straight path. II ve leave
our the theory Of the fourth dimension
0ut even that IS stated Il the very
coolest tones. To many the very tern
mathematics contains al that = Gun.
ali that Is most undressing II The
world But the world 2Iv0ts upon
Mathematics and not upon the flowers
OF rhetoric or a literature
That the education Of the Islands
needs the discipline Of mathematics
must Be plain 10 any one who has list
eued % what 7 have already said We
have been wandering in pleasant and
shady by-paths and hOwe-y mes6s- We
nay have as teachers. and I take %
myself any blame, II there IS any
blame % b rnet=d out wandered away
from ne s--air and narrow path q
learning We may have become d.
fuse
As q black draush1 Is q cure for Bile
and other lis OF tne stomach so n
q cure for the diffusion
q the mind Il is easy 70 work on lines
which require. apparently. no large
mental effort but where there Is 10
mental Effort there Is mental slagnz-
-lun a-d mental s-aEnat10l l. What w..
II our isolated position. have most
seriously 70 combat agaI1sr
There has been sCz1eW haE % q tend
ency % ignore. % q great extent tbs
harder discipline o. n1a1hemarica We
have II many cases srriTsn 70 Gnd
royal road Nov thsre i 10 ros-al
road We have 70 lay the foundation
n arithmetic and carry i OF into tce
higher branches But as our lang cage
mad 20 D. solid SO has our
foundation ID D. solid L
Z
b 50 known thai Il VII never D. to--
gotten We teach language 50 that L
VII not D. forgotten We reach ths
Jesuit oy constant and reiterated reps-
-fti0n- We must teach the commence
nent OF mathematics as thoroughly
nd Es mus 20 over again and zga5n
III II becomes & mental asst which
an never D. taken away Having ne
0uoGstic1 ne can build what ~
5lease upon H. bu- we mus- have the
1un6aziOa-
The lack q a strong mathematical
n -fs primary schools y not
confined 70 on own schools 7 find .
similar lack II ozher schools Tot under
1u- Jurisdiction Bur Just IS II Ian
yu2ge ths influence o. ras public
schools has permeared ali schools 50
vi orr mathematical 1rzznE2g have z
wider effect and VIII help 70 carry for
xsra advanced education beyond our
WI immediate sphere
Z ~e look a. rne opportunities Lha%
,ur young men have nov presented >
-hsu- we shan sac that 20 o sucess-
n they require above Al things a -n0r-
uEn u-arhsC1z-ical training are -1sy
% succeed as engineers a-s they %
.u-s- upou -ne wider fad Eaieh el=c-
-lCsEzL discoveries zre constantly ez@----
ng ou- r1la-henz-ics u rh= soU1Ca-
io-so< their chances q Success op-
7o-tu-.5-ies also come 70 Is Is Ter
tory, 70 receive nominations FOR West
Point and Annapolis Wna- = -1e
=-u6y which has most weight IT hap
~ kG 20 pass Alaraez-a-lcs- Tyaar
III enable -i-1- 70 k==p up MS 10u-sa
.Ia-hen-z-ics again Read any % ~
epo-rs and you I'll 6z5 student a1re-
--u6su- dropped or q rs class. Be-
.z-se O failure u --z-n=-za-lcs- while
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