The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-06-26

sA is grown ninety
there WIN be as many
lerican schools as there
pie in the country. Great
ase in numbers viii be.
promise pf progress is in
nent of the quality OF eeu-
adm. 'ritn' and 'rithme-
vays be the foundations OF
ut the educational world Is
hway from the tyranny of
ny. To teach the children of
20 do. as well as how to
The. duty of the teacher of the
1 L sturdy old Scot, James
is Secretary OF Agricul-
he of the greatest of living
said that he could get all
I and Havard graduates he
1920 a year, but 1t took
much to hire really ex-
e feeder.
son did not dsparage unlver-
cation. He was merely en-
N the demand for men who
Fen trained to do things as well
3]< Enow them. The advance of the
= training movement, the recog-
of the value of the klndergar-
the increasing efforts to train
are Indications of what will be the
lie of the educational system OF the
1ntry in the year 1000.
rhe nearer approach to ideals In
idemic altruism, but it will come
force as the result OF stern neces-
Competition is growing keener
NY day, and when there are 1856, 5,0Oo,-
AnFpfe in this country 1t will be
than we dream of. Only the
d man will be able to succeed
yes necessary to furnish those
locations will be forthcoming
Rne jack-of-all trades fourished a
11century ago. He is out at the heels
now. He will have starved to death
long before the end of this century.
The seventy -eight million American
public school Ihplls of the year 1000
will know of the once lauded little
red school house" only by the tales
they read in old books. The passing
of that storied institution is even now
contributing largely toward the ad-
vancement Of the cause of popular edu-
cation. The little red school house"
was useful in its day and 1t served
q noble purpose. Its day is done now,
: and 1t is to be found only in the most
sckward portions of the country. One
Il hescs regrets for its predecessor
e ''old field schoo!"-but they are
lunded in sentimentality.
Ninety years ago the field school"
was growing toward it's prime. "Acad-
emies" and Colleges" were as numer-
GUS as there were villages In which
to establish them They were good
schools, too, and in them the sons OF
the well-to-do We're taught much Eng
lish, little more OF Latin and some
Greek The classics were not only re-
yered, but worshiped. and In the sue
ceeding generation public speaker
who could not quote from the Latin
and Greek poets might as well not
open his mouth. But the school was
Mot popular for the majority OF the
and nearly all the girls in the
prhood never saw its interior.
IS followed by the "deestrick"
the little red house of dialect
Here the children of the power
cken and the struggling were
ed in, as we'll as those of the
p-do. The three RS were taught
ad languages were quit forgot
he teachers were more demo-
but not nearly so well equipped
lr predecessors of the "old field"
e influence for good was great
snded.
I the little red school house is
away. The towns and cities
~ ong enjoyed the privileges of
their children to graded pub
ools. The majority Of americans
h the country. In no less than
states the rural central graded
gives the rural boy the same
. itage possessed by his urban
- b. More than a hundred thou
school children are each day be-
taken to and from school in q
Gc conveyance at public cost.
q cent raj grade school of the rura