The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-05

scriptfon, in one word, of the Kinder
garten training schools closing exer
cises held at the Castle Kindergarten
at o'clock yesterday afternoon. =
large attendance was present and the
Territorial band played on the lawn
The room looked invitingly pretty, dec,
GRATED deliberately in green.
At the opening hour the girls march
ed in, to the singing of Gloria in Elk
celsis' by the training school. Rev
Arthur Logan offered an invocation
following which the training school
sang in chorus: (a) THE Cosmos OBJ
THE Tea Kettle and (c) 1.-THE Land
of Nod"
Mr.. u. Thompson of Kamehameha
Schoo1 for Boys then delivered the fol-
lowing address:
WORK AND WATT
| There is an old saying about little
knowledge being a dangerous thing.
| Those old sayings may have been
wise when they were made. But they
do not all fit our conditions; and some
of them seem absurd, if we stop to
analyze them. Take this saying about
| a little knowledge being dangerous.
| That depends upon two things: First,
| it depends upon the size of the person
having the knowledge. Second, it de-
ponds upon the kind Of knowledge. I
am sure that saying was made long
before kindergartens were known.
Could that wise man visit one of your
kindergartens and see the size of the
people you teach he would modify his
saying and it would read something
like this, A little knowledge is not a
dangerous thing for personalities OF
this size. And if he stopped to con-
slider the second part of the objection
to his saying, he would modify the
saying again and it would read some
thing like this, This kind of knowledge
is not dangerous thing for any one.
/ regret that this wiseman cannot visit
your kindergarten. AS a kindergarten
pupil he would learn more wisdom and
better wisdom than he appears to have |
had
The wisest thing any nation can do |
is to train it's children along useful /
lines. And the earlier in life this train |
ing begins, the better it is for all. |
You are the pioneers in this training, 4
for you get the children long before I
the public schools will take them. You /
take children from the street. where
they would get the kind of wisdom
the wise man may have had in mind;
and you give them, instead, knowledge
that will be the foundation of all suc-
cess in after life
The women who began this work in |
How T,rJ1 -
serve much credit. They are doing,
without the ballot, what the govern
ment has not accomplished with the
ballot. Have you ever wondered why
these women are doing this work.
this work because they are in advance
Of the public mind and know better
than the government knows, what is
needed for national development They
represent the government of the fu-
ture. Have you ever wondered why
the government is not doing this work?
will tell you that, also. The govern
ment is not doing this work because
it represents the majority; and the
are still too ignorant of this
work to know it's value.
Do you wonder how the majority are
to come to appreciate this work you
are doing? Well, as I have begun to
tell you secrets, I may as well tell you I
this. There are two things you must /
do to get the government interested /
in your work,-you must work and you
must wait How long? That depends
upon how attractive you make the
work to these small people in your I
charge. If you make it attractive and I
to them, they will see to it
that their children have the same |
And their children will ap-
to the majority And their
ehildren's children will be the majority.
And when the majority have had this
training, can you not see the results
the kndergartens under the control
and patronage of the government; and
the same kind of training extended
through all the grades of the public |
schools.
Do you believe that men and women
really desire to be trained, to improve
heir conditions? Do you believe that
fathers and mothers really desire to
have better conditions for the chill
1ren than they themselves have had? l.
do L believe implicitly that every
human being desires to improve. to |
ADVANCE The only reason they don't !
10 it, is because they don't know how
% do it. That is what all this social
struggle means. Revolution is the or-
Ter of the day. Do you know that YOU |
ire revolutionists, in the midst of the
greatest revolution men have under
aiken, that you are aiding it by every
Dit Of useful knowledge you give the
small personages in your keeping? If
you have not yet thought of your work
n that way, it is time for you to begin
TO get that view of it.
Do you sometimes feel that all Won
IAN do is as nothing? Let me trv to
show you how important the smallest
bit Of useful knowledge is. You have
to repeat some simple fact several
times, perhaps many times core the
little people understand il. To