The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-21

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Education consists of two processes
the acquisition OF knowledge and the
training of powers. Kamehameha gives
amount of knowledge as will serve
you under any ordinary circumstances
throughout your life. You learn the
main facts in history and science; you
get a familiarity with mathematical
processes; you attain to a fair mas
terry of the English language Your
| mind is stored. The main emphasis
however, is laid on the work with your
hands. You are being taught in shop
and field correct principles of work
manship and the power of using your
| hands. An effort is being made to
make you self-supporting. You should
have acquired such a knowledge of
principles and such dexterity in the
use of your hands before the end of
your course as will put you at a great
! advantage in the competition which
/ you will enter when you go out into
the world. The tools for success are
now being put into your hands. The
school can do that for you but it can
do little more. You must keep them
sharp. Your experience in the car
penter shop, and in the sewing room,
and in other places has already told
{ you that heavy material and dull tools
make an Indifferent combination. The
tasks and problems which life will
surely bring to you will be material
of the heaviest and hardest kind. Ka-
mehameha expects that you will keep
your tools with a good cutting edge
by the qualities which you developed
here. The great question of your edu-
cation lies in a nice adjustment be-
tween the elements which make for
knowledge and those that give you
training. The settlement of that qUes-
ton does not concern me here. My
urgent advice to you is to get all you
can of both.
L was impressed the other day on
reading a comparison between the
earning capacity of the average boy,
or young man, trained in school and
the one who enters a shop as. an APP
prentice. 1t was compiled by James
NJ. Dodge, President of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, who
knows whereof he speaks. 1t has to
do with conditions on the mainland
but, if / do not misjudge local labor
conditions, the difference between the
two here in Honolulu ought to be even
greater.
1 have said that Kamehameha was
a school and something more. In full |
filling these conditions which ''the
something more demands she has been
developing in you certain qualities.
AS a school, she has given you tools, |
these qualities will help you to keep |
these tools in disable condition.
Certain elements appear in your
education which prepare you for effec- |
tive work and service-for efficiency. |
Not the least among these is the physi- |
cal education taken in the broadest |
sense. / am almost assuming that |
enough is done to keep you in good !
physical condition President Eliot |
has said that in the life failures he
has witnessed the only cases of hope |
less ruin have been those in which the |
body has first been ruined through neg |
lect or vice The need of protecting |
and caring for and improving the body |
can not be too strongly urged. TO
girls and boys who look Squarely into |
the future this becomes solemn moral |
duty. In your course at Kamehameha, !
the coordination of the hand and the |
eye the response of the muscle to the |
call of the mind, should be carefully !
developed Indeed the skill of the best |!
mechanics consists in the sure cooper |
alive action of the practiced hand and |
the practiced eye. The locomotive en- |
gineer and the motorman must have /
steadiness of mind and alertness. With |
them as with many other workmen, |
there must be a very brief interval be- |
tween the sight of a signal or of an |
object on the track and the action |
which is demanded. Our girls espe- |
cially should know the principles of |
personal hygiene and public SANTA |
ton Our medical profession now knows !
how to combat and to minimize fever, |
diphtheria and tuberculosis. The homes
which Kamehameha girls are going to J
make should be protected in health |
They should know how to prevent the ,
destructiveness of these and similar
diseases If you can keep your family
in health, you will do a great deal to
keep it in money and in happiness.
The next quality which ought to take
root here and which will aid You IN
whatever you are doing or wherever
you are is persistence. It's a great
help even to the dullest tool. l nave
in mind several men. They have repu-
tatlOfl, 1f16nuS, lU6 respect VI ti4C PA''
lie, the warm regard of fellow-work-
men. People have confidence in their
estimates and judgments. They are
authorities in their respective lines
The question arises how have they won
their place? It is not because Of nat
uraI ability; no, there are men on eV-
cry hand who are more able and more
brilliant who have no name or tame
outside of their small circle There
are men in inferior places who took
higher rank in school and college.
What then is it? 1t is the cost of the
achievement the price which the WIN
ner has been willing to pay for the
victory-a price indeed that other men
have been unwilling to pay. Nothing
in this world is obtained without pay
ment to it's full value. In starting out
in his career the man who expects to
win selects his goal, and his aim never
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