The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-07
PRAISES OUR
SCHOOL SYSTEM
Nevada Educator Finds Much
to Admire in Schools
of Honolulu.

During the past two weeks the pub
lie schools of Honolulu have been Wis
tied and inspected by three of the
members of the Western Tours par
lens is such as to enable them to ap-
preeiate the difficulties to be found in
city of such a cosmopolitan popula-
ton as Honolulu. These visitors are
Col. II. B. Maxson, the secretary of
the Nevada State Board of Education,
of Reno; Mrs. Helen NJ. Chase, secre-
tary of the Ladies Literary Club of
San Francisco, which she will address
on her return on the educational sys-
tenn of Hawaii, and Mrs. c. Elizabeth
Perkins, of Boston.
With the exception of the Kameha-
meha Schools, this party has made a
thorough investigation of the Homo
lulu halls of learning and Kameha-
nleha will be visited probably this af-
ternoon. Being private school, Ka-
mehameha has not had the interest
for the visitors of the public schools,
nor ire there to be found there the
mixed nationalities among the chill
dren, the education of which in their
.conglcmeration has been matter of
especial interest to Colonel Maxon,
fresh from the Coast and the school
agitation there. On the subject of the
possibility of the mainland schools fol-
lowing the example of Hawaii and
teaching the children of all corners In
the same classes, Colonel Maxon was
chary of expressing any opinion, but
he had no hesitation in declaring that
wonderful results had followed this
system in Hawaii
IT am highly pleased with what I
have seen of the educational matters
in these Hands he said yesterday.
History shows us that your educa-
tional system here was founded before
that of California or the adjoining
States, and it is well known that many
of the early Californians were edu-
Gated here. And as you started be-
fore US. you have continued to. adj
vance most wonderfully, considering
the material upon which you have had
to work OF course you have no Berk-
eleys nor Stanfords here, but the high
er educatio has made splendid prog
ress, and the public school system,
considering the inauguration of ma
tionalities you have, is q wonderfully
complete one. 1 have spent the last
ten days among the schools here,
through the courtesy of your very able
superintendent of Public Instruction,
Mr.. Rabbit, and have received much
help also in my Investigations from
DR.. Rodgers, whose heart is still in
the work of solving the problems of
education.
I'm respect to the school building
here there are many things that could
be patterned after to advantage by
our school boards in the more tropi-
cal parts of our country and / have
learned much in this regard that will
be of the greatest value to me, mas
much as 100000 will be spent in Neva-
da within the next year under my di-
rection. In the matter of ventilation
and the arrangement of anterooms
have been particularly impressed with
what I have seen here.
without exception I have seen
something to commend at each one of
the schools I have visited, but particu-
larly noteworthy is the advancement
being made in the Royal School in
those classes devoted to the practical
training of the pupils. I refer more
particularly to the lace-making classes
and the drawing departments. Let me
show you what kind of work found
them doing
Colonel Maxson then exhibited some
beautiful specimens of lace work,
done at the school by Miss Annie Joe,
one of the pupils, under the instruc-
ton of Miss Ahana and Mrs. HUI. He
had also some excellent freehand draw
ings, one a pencil portrait of himself,
sketched during one of his visits by
Ben Mendoza and Steer NADIA. He
also desired to compliment Richard
Mossman, who repeated for the visi-
tors the Grafton delivered by him on
Washington's birthday.
For these young men there is a
good future in store he added.
s'Of all the impressive sights at any
of the schools that Of the gathering of
children representing ten nations
saluting the American flag and drill
ing under the charge of Miss F'elker,
at the Kaahumanu School, was the
most impressive. It was stirring
spectacle for me to watch those chill
dren learning patriotism for the coun-
try of their adoption and learning to
respect and love the American en-
blem.'