The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-23

are many which strike sympathetic
If not a musical. chord. One says he
does not like to sing because every
body sings; another because cit is
notes and STAFF. another has the waste
of good time uppermost in his mind
when he says that he dislikes IL be-
cause you see some people stay at home
all day playing music and earning
nothing; one does not like to write
sofa which being Interpreted means
Sol Fla If the Tonic Sol Fa system;
many find adherence in changing
Sofia into staff. one says it's mot
! fond of us and another that ii is the
/ worst thing in the world" Among
those with Hawaiian blood, whose mu-
steal propensities and accomplishments
have long been n matter of comment
| music is next to drawing the most pop
ular subject. But the Japanese who
have thirty-five per cent who dislike
singing seem to have the greatest ma
/ tional aversion to music.
In conclusion, a few CONGRATULATIONS
may be drawn.
/. The favorite studies are the long
established old-fashioned ones: Num-
Der, language and geography.
=. The protests are strongest towards
three OF the recently added subjects
drawing, music, manual training.
3. In case of one of these at least,
drawing, 1t would seem that the in
trinsic merit of the subject or the
method of teaching is at fault.
a. The reports from reading show
that our upper grade teaching of it is
less effective than that of the lower
grades in that in the upper grades the
interest is not appealed to through the
content as successfully as through the
mechanics in the lower grades.
.. Young children like concreteness
and detiniteness both in instruction
and in amount of work required of
them.
6. AS we all know, the unitarian
side of education appeals to children.
The remarkable popularity of language
among the non-Teutonic races amply |
bears this out especially when reen-
forced by their often repeated reasons
of desiring to learn 1t because it will |!
help them.
Z. The native fondness for music
seems to be for the ukulee kind with
no accompaniment of labor.
s. From these statistics, it appears
that there is a sharp line of demarca-
ton between the Teutonic children and
those of foreign extraction in their re-
spective attitudes towards language.
When an average preference of twenty
per cent favoring this subject, appears
among the children whose native
tongue is in most cases not even Il
Kindred one, and when on the other side
tWenty-one per cent of the children
from our English speaking homes cor
daily dislike it, we need to give the
situation more than passing considera-
ion.
When every thing has been said, in
he face of the statistics, all are united
n believing the enrichment of the
curse to include some thing more than
he old "Trillum' is desirable. That
should not be the mere ad-
iition of subjects to a list-an enrich
nent in name only; it should mean an
Infusion of a vitali2ing force into the
I'D and the new subjects so that they
re made to appear and actually to be
If real interest and of unquestionable
'alue. That can only be done through
n animated and interested teacher
Who, with sympathy and patience,
and facts, leads the child I
long the paths of reason.