The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-09-04
Polo on Maui.

The new polo ponies brought by Sam
| Weller from the Coast for the Maui
players are to be tried out this week.
1t is not thought that they will. be
played in the tournament this year If
such an event takes place. The Homo
| lulu men are waiting for the Maui men
| to take the initiative in this matter.
| The latter players are having man--
practice games of late which indicates
DISPOSITION for a trial but the Oahu
men have not taken down their NAL
| lets for many weeks.
X Xxx X Xxx K Xxx X Xxx X X X X
called, was tested and tried in every
possible way, quietly and without OBJ
servation. I'VE did not rush out with
our discovery" says Mr.. Kennedy
I'VE claim some credit for self-control.
We wanted to study our method I'M
disturbed; we wanted to test it fully;
we wanted to make sure of it. When
we did speak it was in response to an
official inquiry from the State Super
intcndent as to what new departure
had been undertaken"
WHAT THE STATE SUPERINTEND-
ENT OF SCHOOLS SAYS.
1t is in his report of 1902 that the
State Superintendent, Mr.. Charles r.
Skinner gives the following official
endorsement of Mr.. Kennedy's system:
II have been watching with deep in
terest the experiment in Individual in
struction carried on under the direc-
ton and supervision of Superintendent
John Kennedy in the schools of Ba-
tavia, New York, during the past four
years, and am persuaded that the COM
bination of class and Individual in
struction is the solution of the graded
school problem. This combination
seems to secure every economy and
stimulus contemplated in class educa-
ton, while avoiding it's harshness and
infleXibility. 1t is pleasant to
think that about all worry, discourage,
ment, oVerstrain and breakdown may
be banished from the graded schools.
1t has been well said that the children
get through the graded school under
unrelieved mass instruction in spite of
ii rather than by means of it.
We owe to the children, the teachers
and the community protection against
pressure, over work, worry and failure,
and | believe that we may and should
save to health and education many
who will otherwise succumb to phys
ical overstrain O. fall by the wayside
through Encouragement That this
can be done by making individual in
struction as regular a feature in school
work as class drill is, 1 think, no long
er open to doubt"
RECOMMENDED BY MANY WELL
KNOWN EDUCATORS.
After two days spent with a commit
tee in thorough examination of the
Batavia method in its practical every
day working, Superintendent Whitney,
of Ogdensburg, gave 1t his unqualified
approval and recommended that it be
introduced into all the public schools
of his city. Similar action has been
taken by many other educators, nota-
bly, in Greater New York.
f. Thistleton Mark, Professor of
Pedagogy, Birmingham, England, af-
ter thorough investigation on the spot,
declared emphatically: "These meth
DDS will revolutionize the schools of
England"
G. Stanley Hall, President of Clark
University. says: individual instruc-
ton sounds the key note of education
for the next decade"
So let anxious mothers and confused,
discouraged little children through all
our towns ind cities look up and take
courage. The day of their deliverance
is drawing nigh.