The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-01-27
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need to put out red lights to protect
the community and the cold blooded
| dollar-getters from being run down
and slaughtered by educational en-
Enthusiasts.
/ This gentleman like many another
of his kind would not think of putting
his machinery or his landed property
in the hands of anything but a mechan-
ical enthusiast or an agricultural en-
thusiast, whose enthusiasm makes him
worth what our friend paysc him and
causes the enterprise to turn out divi-
dends. Where wolld the sugar indus.
try of Hawaii have been today had it
not been for the money spent in back
ing up the propositions of the en-
thusiastsl How much progress would
the world have made through the ages,
what sort of country would we have
had without the enthusiasts who have
lost sight of the ancient systems that
were good enough for the fathers and
therefore presumably should be good
enough for the children, that is, the
practical fathers and the practical
children, This man ought to know
that it is just as important for the
people to be guided by the educational
enthusiasts in the management of their
public schools as it was for the plant
ers association to send Professor Koe-
belle instead of a plantation teamster
out searching for an enemy to cope
with the leaf hopper.
This is a fact with which the public
school fund commission was not direct
ed to deal, but it is an allimportant
one in shaping a public school policy.
There is just as much reason in send
ing child to an old-fashioned teacher
and refusing to supply enough money
| to provide the child with an expert
teacher, modern course of study, and
a comfortable schoolroom in which to
work, as there is to send your child
suffering from appendicitis to a dry
goods clerk. for treatment instead of a
skilled physician.
Need for Expert Teachers.
You want expert information in your
business and are willing to pay for it.
1t pays, Then why should you object
to the educational enthusiasmothat calls
for money to give the ehildEen of the
community in which you live and in
which your children are growing up,
expert teaehers2 When it comes right
down to it the response of most every
one on second thought is, "0f course,
you are right. OF course, our children
should have the best. !" Then when it
comes to legislative session some of
those same men so far forget them
selves as to raise their hands in holy
horror at the idea of laying a sufii.
GENTLY heavy tax to meet the demand
for expert teachers in the public
schools. When they see what is needed
they sometimes call the men who lay
out the program a gang of visionary
educational enthusiasts, and the teach
ers who have to do the work and re-
eeive pittance of money a galaxy Of
such a brutally harsh manner, but
judging from their acts that's what
they are thinking all the time.
And who suffersa Simply the child
a poor innocent and deserving child
who in a few years is to become a
member of the body polite with the
responsibilities of citizenship, and you
demand that he shall be a good citizen
or go to Jail.
Our good friends who balk at paying
more for the conduct of publ c schools
and who object to the proper payment
of teachers under whose care and in.
tiuence these future citizens spend the
greater portion of their days while in
the formative period of youth remind
me of one of the stock stories of the
late w. N. Armstrorg-an therefore
a good one. A man was lost on a prairie
where he wandered for days and DAYS.
Finally he sighted a Jail and a church,
whereupon he shouted, "Thank God
am in civilization. !"
Too many people forget the need for
expert methods and educational en-.
thusiasm and money for the common
school that is the common ground from
which men and women make their way
in the world either to the church or the
jnil.
II will occur to some that our friend
who objected to the educational en-.
thusiasts had in mind the tendency to
give the child too much, theoretical
book knowledge without training his
head and hands for practical work.
On this point we are entirely Ia
f9HphAhN Win MIN ana so afe the
educational enthusiasts who through
out all these ages have been dreaming
dreams and working for nothing a week
as a reward for their pains.
Must Have Money.
Bat to gain this knowledge OF the
practical, 10 properly equip The ehii,
dFen 10 make good IN the battle Of life
Ne must have expert teachers, aud 10
secure these We must have moneys va
also need fret class equipment In school
houses and school room paFaphernalla
and that requires money
To devise WAY 10 get the money
and make everyone feel pleasant ahlif
lheY aTe paylng a y he sesleas aHa
difficult duty that vas placed o. ihs
nhQHiien VI ihf puhlir sfh0al fund aam
mlssion BY ihe lasi legislature
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ln ihf publif schools ihe commission
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