The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-01

now began to rule in that room. Best
of all, perhaps, when school broke up
the books We're left in the desks and
the little flock darted away into the
outer world free from every care, as
the young of all creation ought to be.
No porting over partial payments and
cudgeling weary little brains over
cubic complexities around the evening
lamp for them.
What had happened? A quiet, gem
tie girl, with trained mind, tireless
patience and sympathetic perception
of child nature, was moving hour by
| hour through that room like a minis
tering angel. Schools says Super
intendent Kennedy, ARE administered
to death: they are ministered into
life
This work of ministration to the dim
and puzzled little brains was a very
breath of life, energizing them to a
| fresh grasp, Illuminating them with
the joy of clear intellectual percep-
ton. Suddenly it was found that the
backward children were catching up
with the bright ones Ere long, in
many cases they were outstripping
them, and the leading lights of the
keep up with the dull scholars.
THE EXPERIMENT HAS PROVED
A GREAT SUCCESS.
So signal was the success of the ex-
pertinent that it was manifestly the
duty of the board to apply the new
plan throughout the entire public
school system of the town, and this
has been gradually done without addi-
tional expense. 1t costs less, Mr.. Ken
| nedy says, to educate children than to
kill them. The experiment was, how
ever, varied by having one teacher
| assume the double function of class
and individual instruction in rooms
which were not overlooking. The re-
suits We're equally satisfactory. THE
single teacher brought forward her
| own laggards, relieved her room and
brought it into a condition comparing
very favorably with that prevailing
| in the two-teacher ROOM
There are in all seven individual in
structors employed in the Batavia
schools at this time, one teacher in
many cases going from room to room.
They are not regarded as assistants
or under-teachers in any sense, and
their salaries are the same as those
| Of the regular or class teachers of
their grade. It should be stated that
| the Batavia school-houses were built
| upon liberal, broad gagged plan.
with spacious well-ventilated rooms;
a fact which has contributed in an
important degree to the success of Mr..
hennedy's experiment. For a success
1t is, substantial and unqualified 1t
| is a reform which has come to stay.
ACTUAL, PRACTICAL RESULTS OF
INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION.
have been at pains to inquire re-
garding the actual, practical results
of individual instruction, among
teachers. parents and scholars of my
acquaintance. The answers have been
unanimous and hearty. The president
of the school board tells me: There
is no out about it. 1t solves the
problem. It saves the teacher and it
saves the child" The parents rejoice
in the new era of peace and rest ana
release. The teachers bear enthusiast
TIC testimony 10 the revolution it has
wrought in their departments. The
children tell me: Il don't know what
would have become of me without it.
1 should have had to drop out
Not long since the chairman of the
Committee on School Hygiene of the
homeopathic National Medical So