The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-01-17
ENDORSE IDEA OF
SCHOOL FOR BOYS
Federal Government May Assist
in Training for Work on
Plantations.
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Onicial approval of the Dolliver.
Davis educational bill, now pending
before congress- was unanimously voted
by the commissioners Of public instruc.
tion at yesterday mornings session.
This bill, which means SO much to the
educational development of the Ter.
ritory along industrial lines, has now
official and civic endorsement, the Civic
Federation having unqualifiedly voted
its support Of the measure month
since.
; The bill calls for the establishment
Of schools of various nature to care for
and train those past school age, who
would be otherwise unemployed, until
they attained more mature age. Its
full text has already been published.
The commissioners nave now prac-
tically completed their work and final
draft of the revised school laws and
the revised regulations of the depart
ment is being made preparatory to pre-
senting them to the legislature for its
approval and enactment into law.
The schedule prepared with definite
salaries for teachers and principals was
passed without change, this clause in
the school rules having been published
in The Advertiser of Wednesday. The
final adoption of the schedule depends
upon the appropriation received from
the Legislature.
For Skilled Laborers.
The proposed establishment of indus
trial schools, literally interpreted, is
to serve as a means of making skilled
labOrers out of boys and young men
after they have finished the ordinary,
or common school, courses. Those who
make science of the study of human
kind realize that boys between the ages
of fourteen and eighteen, who have not
means to continue the higher courses,
are oftentimes idle, having no knowl-
edge of skilled labor, and too young to
do unskilled labor which requires, as a
general rule, hardened muscles.
1t is to get this young army of COM
ing citizens into shape so that it may
get above the unskilled laboring class
and earn livelihood more in keeping
with the hope of educators, that the
industrial schools are proposed. Such
schools are to make skilled laborers.
Manual training schools, it is claimed
Wy soihc euuCdIOiSy tShu W MANI pOsoS5
of skilled labor.
For Plantations.
Interpreted locally the plan would
be to establish central school at or
near Eva plantation, where the boys
could be taught the use of carpenter 3
tools, blacksmith s tools, or to use
whatever tools may be found in sugar
mill, or any of the various workshops
connected with it; taught to handle
animals and agricultural tools.
In all this system of education the
scheme is not to make bosses of the
boys, but to teach them to handle the
ordinary tools of the man who earns
his livelihood by the sweat of his brow.
The young fellows taken in hand be-
tween the ages of fourteen and eigh-
teen could thus be qualified at seven.
teen or eighteen to commence work on
plantations and have a knowledge of
the tools they are expected to handle.
In other words they would not be
thrust upon employers absolutely green.
thereby compelling the employers to
spend their time, or the time of EN-.
ployes, in telling them what to do.
1t is the plan to establish these cen.
tral industrial schools on all the Is
lands. Educators believe this will solve
problem for the aiding of young fell
lows who otherwise might drift along
with the flood of unskilled laborers.