The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-24


phasis now is based on practical math-
ematics. hygiene and athletics. Instead
of educating the mind alone the mod
ern public school endeavors also to
train the hands and strengthen the
body.
The teaching of hygiene in the pub
lie schools is already having a tremen-
dous influence. and in the next ninety
years it will have worked a transfor-
nation of the habits of every day life
in this country. Alcohol is already
feeling the blows being dealt by girl
teachers all over the country. Chill
dren are being taught the precise eff
feet upon the body of the continuous
use of alcoholic stimulants, and it is
drilled into them that that effect is
wholly bad.
The schools likewise teach that
much harm may CONF from overnat-
ing. This will have its weight in
counteracting the American tendency
toward gormandizing. The American
people eat nearly four times as much
per capita as the people of the rest
of the world We eat eight times as
much meat as the other nations, and
each one of US eats twice as much
sugar now as our fathers did in 1860.
The cooking schools and the school
hygienists will help to stop this ten
dency.
Children will be taught in the kim
dergarten that certain laws of nature
must be obeyed if disease and death
are to be avoided The daily bath will
become an absolute essential, because
the law will force every child to go
to school and the school will not let
an unbathed child come in. The
schools will teach the people that dirt
and disease are twins-the people will
become educated and they will be as
clean as possible. Diseases that now
scourge the country will be made prac-
ticaIly harmless and the span of life
will be greatly increased.
Public schools advanced along such
lines will lay excellent foundations for
the higher educational institutions.
There will be many great universities
and colleges in the United states nine
ty years from now, but the glory of
the nation will be its technical schools.
Every college man will take a post
graduate course in technics. Special
training will not be confined to law
yers. doctors, preachers and engineers.
The farmer will not consider himself !
qualified to take his fathers pillow |
handle until after course in tech |
nical institute No boy will leave |
school without special knowledge, of !
how to do some one thing we'll enough |
to MAKE his living at it. No girl win
leave school without knowledge of
the science and art of cooking, and |
the craft of housekeeping.
The nation will advance toward
paternalism in educational matters of |
which it does not dream these days. |
The statesmen Of the future will re-
cognize the fact that industrial educa- !
ton is necessary, and that the more |
widely distributed the opportunities for |
acquiring it the better for the ration. |
ways of doing things viii |
be abandoned. Already the civil SER
vice is becoming exacting in its de-
mands. Already the technically train /
ed man is outstripping the academ-
cally cultured man. This progress
will go on. There will never be a time
when man whose mind is well train
ed in the beauties of the classics viii
not have an intellectual advantage
But in the competition of the future
ne must also train his hands to do
some useful task or the world viii
neglect to note his existence.
1t hasn't been long since it was be-
ieved that education was not only I'M
necessary, but positively harmful for
L farmer. Now the country is begin
hing to awake to the fact that the
good farmer must be a highly educat-
ID man. The college farmers who
we're sneered at by the "b'gosh" bril-
sade a few years ago have proved
heir superiority by acquiring the
ands Of the scorners. Ninety years
rom now a non-coIlege farmer will be
Is rare as a non-coIlege physician to-
lay.
Ten boys are in technical schools to-
lay where there was one twenty years
go. Ten girls are in domestic science
schools today where there was one
wenty years ago. This proportion is
icing increased rapidly, and the next
generation win expect every child in
he country TO be trained from the |
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