The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-05-17

! ~ SCHOOLS connected tncrtWltn, more
than $50 pupils, all English speaking
! children at their entry at the primary
school. All others must be able to use
English SO as to be ready to receive in
structlon from the beginning.
The High School stands at the head
of these schools, which are its feeders,
no other schools in Honolulu so far,
with rare exception here and there,
being able to prepare pupils to enter
! the High School. The course of instruc-
! ton in the High School is similar to
that pursued in the best schools of the
mainland. There has. recently been
erected an almost perfect building, adj
mirably equipped, for the commercial
department. Another building of five
rooms has just been completed, for the
accommodation of the rapidly growing
grammar department. With some
change and addition to the scientific
laboratory, the parents of Honolulu
would have a High School, SO far as
buildings and equipment go. that any
city might be proud of.
There is at present a very high aver
age corps of teachers, having degrees
from colleges and universities among
the best on the mainland. They have
all had from three to fifteen years of
successful work in the school-room. In
all those things that enlarge and en-.
rich the mind, it is not invidious to
compare them with any class of BUSH
ness or professional men in Hawaii.
1t is a grave error to suppose that
these educated and cultivated men and
women teach because they could not do
anything else. When they entered the
vocation of teaching, they were thor
oughly imbued with the fact that, in so
doing, they gave up the possibility of
position, esteemed by most people as
the only prizes of successful effort.
They teach because it gives them a
quiet, scholarly life, best suited to their
natures and aptitudes. They know
that there are some things supremely
worth having, not to be obtained by
pull, push, strife, self-assertion and
pride of place.
By parents, guardians and wise rul-
ers, every effort should be made to Sc
cure and to retain teachers of the high
est character and qualification.
1t is much to be regretted that those
in authority, seeking some way to re-
duce expenses of government, should
not have found a method, otherwise
than by so sweeping a reduction of
teachers salaries, especially those of
teachers of the highest character and
attachments. Such reduction of sala-
ries makes it incumbent upon the teach
ers to seek employment in other places
where they can obtain living and
where their conspicuous services will
be, it is hoped more appreciated and
better rewarded than in the Paradise of
the Pacific.
believe that the parents and guard
ians of the young men and women now
attending the High School are unan-
imous in their desire to retain the pres
ent able corps of teachers, or to get
a faculty of equal excellence.
1t is also most certain that the best
and most enlightened sentiment of all
nationalities and vocations in Honolulu
are of the same opinion. But the re-
duction III salaries TO take place July
LIST makes the retention of the present
faculty impossible, and more impossible
to get anything like their equals to fill
their places. Their present salary with
one exception, is $1,000 per year, or 500
per month. This small sum, for in
structors of their education and train
ing, is all too little. But on July LIST
II is TO be reduced to $50 per month
When they pay for their board cloth
ing and washing, they will not have as
much left as the veriest sculllon in the
kitchen.
Professor Max Muller gave utterance
to profound philosophy when he said
The intellectual and moral character
of nation is founded in its schools and
and those who educate a
people have always been its real mas
ters, though they may go by more
modest name"
1t may we'll be asked of our people
of light and leading whether their quiet
according TO the dictum of
Muller, shall be robust, educated and
cultured men and women, or moral end
valetudiuarians.
sail escaped with the frac-
ture of two bones in his foot. He was
taken TO the Queens Hospital
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