Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-23


win ANYTHING.
IN the authors travels nmong
other peoples he has obscpcd the
manifestation " three ideals IN cdu.
cation. w rome European ana At
latte ouintticI. culture u The hlphrt
ain a. education and Tho rludout.
even though this roitticta the
ntcsdth of lte eneets W uthp. coiin
Iui,' fchrlaithip " iho'yual uf ein
| atiunai e1dps or. Tho a.UumUil
iion of facts and the ryfbmetizIpp
/ kr Wedge ~ The Manifestation
81 scholar. otninmenig IN this
.uunuy the ideal o. cdu alton Is
'or folyiec. This ldoal Us in the mo.
uves Of industrial education aud q
the impulse aud mainaprlnr 81 tnr
state agricultural colleges.
In order 10 attain 10 this ideal,
the child must be educated IN terms
of the things with which " lives;
| and the vast majority OF NC muH
live with common things aud activi
ties. Tho boy who may End hls call
ing IN the line of trade and trans
puftation may DO educated for this
calling in terms OF ships. railroads
freight rates. and the like. The
girl who expects to take hand In
home making (and few do not may
find her education In the uses of
foods and their preparation and In
che arts OF home construction and
identifying.
The boy cf tho soil can he edu-
ated by agriculture for agriculture
and he various other callings which
his community demands Of him. Ed
ucating by meaEs of the subjects
close at hand therefore brings the
child into intimate Acquaintance with
It's own lie. and It l. only as the
child mind develops that It should
be taken or excursions into things
extrlnsic or into distant LANDS or dis.
tant events
The true end and aim OF educa
ton is 10 prepare men ana women
to- live and TO he productive. as he
or she lives best and IN lest who IS
In closest tou h with the things and
activities nearest about them and
with which they are most closely as
srclatdd.
co not wish to he understood as
advocating no choice of subjects,
There should be strict choice of
subj ects. hut the grayamcn OF the
lpro0lCm is to choose those subjects
that are associated with the child's
enyronmcnt and to adapt them and
their method OF presentation To the
child's points of view and capa 2ity.
Not only has our method Of teach
ing in the elementary schools been
academic, hut Off text books are
also gcnerally peryaled with the
same academic spirit and arrange
ment. Most geographys, even thu
D elementary ones. begiu with deflni
5 tions and descriptions OF the uni
e verse ana the solar system. whereas
$ the child To whom the subject i
first taught is already interested IL
e the nearby hill, stream and valley
Q lie wonders why the rice has beer
= raised in low fields. The school yart
}. and its environment possess more
{ geography information, both elemen
tary and advanced. than you or
1 have dreamed OF. The geograph,
o teaching may well end with a book
$ but 1t need not begin with one. Picl
r up almost any graded arithmetic an'
you find in its first pages methods
S of notation and enumeration and tn
I theory of numbers But the child Il
g interested In the concrete expression
: OF numbers, parts. distances, weights
s and measures that II comes In con
e tact with every day. Likewise TAX
h up your books on botany and you iint
o them beginning with the cell prolo
8 p1asm, sphyrogyea and the perfec
!, flower. what child or older persoi
y IL not interested in plants? But how
!. many of us are interested In botany
o Our teachers and pupils are patron
! izing too much the text book route'
y to the City of Learning; and often
times lney never IetuiH w 'he '""'
IS mon places and things because II
e their journey they did not see tn
. oaks, the plowed lands and the fac
g tories that marked the way.
= The study OF common things an
7" activities at the point of interes
= contact makes resourccful men an
women.
- In China many scholars stud
y until they are sixty years old, mean
time never having earned cen
!, They have not been educated l
: terms of productive and resourcefu
a activities. This point of view
ts amply illustrated In my own teach
- ings. In the schools of agricultur