The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-03-23

Allan sTAp. TUESDAY, MARCH
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u the fifteenth ,oar, as soon O.. they
are fourteen.
W a Kinney was somewhat applI-
cd at the array OF school Teachers. ta
realized that be had critical audience
and he was not here 30 speak through
choice. particularly Ia regard to- the
problem that now faced the Logisls-
ture. stln, he mad ideas ana would
endeavor to present hem. he had
had settlement experience and had
come TO have some very decided views.
lie noticed ths children of the portu-
guese settlement he had in mind did
not begin to have the industrious na-
bits OF their parents. They secured
book learning, came to be splendid
citizens, many of them, but lacked
habits Of industry. lie preferred the
man who obeyed the primary law
which calls for industry Largely
through the Intervention of the Anglo
Saxon element of this country the
rising generation of Portuguese had
not the habits of industry that they
should have-they were not altogether
satisfactory according to the idea OF
the interveners nor to their parents.
You can't put a child in school from
six to fifteen and expect them to take
as naturally to labor as would be the
case of they sooner got the idea of in
dustry. He didn't believe in continuing
compulsion 10 the age of fifteen. New
Englanders, of course, prided them
selves on education, but perhaps with
too much learning to abstract knowl-
edge He thought much could be learn
ed from the Orientals in their manner
toward their parents. There should be
something, as in Orientals and Euro
peans of reverence of children toward
parents; the idea should be cultivated
so that a parent would have more lee
way over the child. With wisdom, get
understanding; don't go too far in the
idea of penaliZing a parent to make
him give his child just so much educa-
ton; give the parent wider authority,
so that during the school age, a parent
would be better able to cultivate in his
child the routine of habits of industry,
as well as the child, gathering school
knowledge; so could a child better
learn that the world is a place where
there is work-where work is the main
thing. How often are young men drop
ped out of college, educated but I'M
able to get employment unless picked
up and favored by some job given them
out of mere helping consideration.
Kinney thought the public at large
was disguised with the false economy
of two years ago, the education system
should be advanced by the payment of
good salaries to good teachers.
DR.. Doremus Scudder hadn't any
children, nor was he connected with
public schools, he said; he paid taxes,
etc, so was interested though he might
be interested in economy from the
taxation standpoint
He could never think of cutting down
the salaries of the most useful class in
the community. They were the poor
est paid class. Their pay was univer-
sally acknowledged as entirely made
quate. Teachers were philanthropic,
working much for very little. No civil
lized community would ever think of
cutting the too small pay of these
workers for humanity.
Scudder hadn't sympathy with the
idea of rich country like Hawaii not
being able to pay for the education OF
her children. He was willing to put
up-if the others were made to put up
daughter and applause).
w. r. Harrington, once a member or
the Board of Education, said the idea
of cutting teachers salaries and short
ening of the school age was the most
extraordinary he had ever heard tell
particularly with this community
which so prided itself on its educa-
tional system The Legislators are
laying down on their job if they keep
out any child of the present school age.
Habits of industry can be inculcated in
the schools; a course of manual train
ing, with particular attention to agr1-
culture in country districts should be
mapped out for the public school, The