The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-17
NO ROYAL ROAD.

There royal road learning That discovered long
BE prince peasant be he rich poor be he gentle simple
learning only be acquired painfully and with continued
1t is true that some have abilities than Others that some
develop the asmav quality more rapidly than Others but however
great the abilities however capable the assmaye qualities still the
painful and slow process OF mastering details acquiring principles
has be gone through and evolution from the abea the
mind the mind stored with knowledge and the mind trained to
questions and solve them long and almost heabreakng
one. ....,.
The presence great institutions of learning has good effect
doubt and the opportunity acquiring knowledge must be at
hand required but the mere presence OF well equipped institutions does
necessarily imply that those who attend will succeed There
who through universities and those OF Great Britain
who prove very SHINY educated when all Is Sad ana DONE We e
small WHICH gets through all but dropped on the
passage.
The that university place OF
learning proof of his ability that he particular
capable passing He may lack perseverance, he
may lack the assnlatve faculty. he may lack many things which may
put end his first squirt and he finds himself completely of the
And only by applying continued tests that the best minds
kept and the standard OF institutions kept Places like Annapo
keep up extremely high standard
understand this The class lists smaller and smaller and the
simple dropped for failure in mathematics dropped for failure
this that marks the educational evolution in those
tutons. The standard remains mmutabe The young must
reach the standard the standard lowers itself to the
graduating the residue of mental power from which all
deeous worthless and weak material has been thrown off.
is well to take glance at these matters since we are now so Sit
uaed that make many opportunities which closed
before We have therefore meet those opportunities
give acquiring secondary
education Hitherto the effort has been largely devoted primary edu
cation But secondary education be worth anything be kept up
TO standard 1t is thing dub place High School, is quite
another thing conduct such establishment lines which will com
mand the recognition OF the highest places of learning upon the main
In effort after secondary education shall utterly fail fall
below high standard We have had in this line
because have kept high standard which to be reached only by
the hardest work These the High and the Normal School
The graduates of high school have ranked high iii university
examinations Next there is believe that
the Honolulu High School will have the privilege OF accreng allow
ed by the University of California This will allow of the subjects
passed in the High School the examination OF the local faculty
Any other High School established the Islands will have up
the high standard High School be OF value must be
High School, if merely deusOn and We
have merely Island standard measured by apab
ties but be standard measured by the capabilities mainland
WI W.T. 'o me no I i WY WY III, y l d ti ,
Of assimilation which be gained by short reached by
royal road It will be hard and steady podding