Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-06-10
Graduation Essay Is Plea
to Hawaiians For
Industry.

| 'S' 'ho iV'ioWinB dIUclc IL an
essay read by Miss Dora Peiler, of
the 1911 class Kamehameha Girls
School, at the Commencement exer-
cises held on June 8.
THE EDUCATION OF
HAND AND MIND
What Is the purpose OF education?
Before man can be of any use to
community, before he can make
a livelihood for himself, he must have
some experience, he must have some
ideal, something toward which he Is
working. We may say then. conf
IDENTIFY, that the purpose OF education
Is to nj man for his environment.
There has been considerable change
/ during the centuries In the ideas of
education and In the. values of educa-
ton. We can clearly see that. Long
ago many people thought that II was
not necessary to educate the minds
OF the masses in order to better their
country. Yet there we're come peo-
| pie who from the earliest time have
sought methods of education that
would better men. In modern times
there have been Froebel, the father
OF the Kindergarten; Pestalozzi, the
educational reformer; Rousseau, the
great French writer; Mary Lyon and
Horace Mann. both founders of
schools In pioneer days. Then there
have been Thomas Arnold Of Rugby,
Alice Freeman Palmer of WELLESLEY,
DR.. John Dewey and DR.. Stanley Hall,
who said he could do sixty things
with his hands and who believed in
the manual theory. Each OF the above
had a system he or she believed In
and worked hard to advance educa.
tional interests.
Development Of Late Years.
Up to about fifty years ago. the
value Of hand and mind training COM
bined had not been realized. The
tradition Of the previous centuries
prevailed, and all of the hand train
Ing was acquired In the shops OF
workmen and In guilds where the APP
prentices and even some OF the mas
ter-workmen did not see the scientific
aspect of things. The training OF
the mindwas for the most part such
as had been carried on In monastery.
schools, where there was no scientific
training and where the monks i'm
parted only as much as they thought
wise to the ignorant The two forms
OF education were kept wholly sep
arate for centuries. But now II is
believed skilled hand work should
supplement mind training. Manual
schools for practical and scientific
training and trade schools have
sprung up all over the world Gov
ernments have introduced manual
training into public schools and
science forms an important part of
the curriculum.
Just as the mass of people long ago
were ignorant and sought TO destroy
the theories OF great reformers, so
do the ignorant today.
Applies to Hawaii.
In Anglo-Saxon countries, the ne
cessity for education OF hand and
h'iU 10 phctsy bchcidiiy itdiiHeu. IN
we Hawaiians realize the full value
OF this new education? Does the
aoihty 10 read ana write constitute
educatiohF Are we saished WIN
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