Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-06-24

field exercises, with particular ref
erence to material suitable for use
in kindergarten work.
Other Special Courses.
Other special instruction, to meet
certain specific needs, has been or
ganized from time to time, in response
to special requests. Work of this
kind has been done by the depart
ments of Domestic Science, Botany
and Horticulture. Zoology and Ento-
mology, and Art
Correspondence Courses.
The correspondence courses were
established in September, 1910.
printed folder was sent out to public
school teachers, plantation en-
ployees. and others supposedly in
terested in such courses.
Numerous inquiries were received
regarding the course, and students on
the various islands registered in the
course on soils and crops; plant life.
President Gilmore, In an article up
on correspondence study In the Ha-
waiian Collegeian. June, 1910, writes
as follows:
One characteristic that distin-
guishes our system of education In
America from that of other nations
is its democracy. We look upon our
system of common schools as funda-
mental to the welfare Of the nation
and upon the colleges that have been
established under the direction OF ma
tional law as institutions that render
large returns to the nation in the
form of increased efficiency for Its
citizens. However, up to the present
time our system of education has one
element lacking in rendering It's
democratic application complete; and
that Is, II does not reach all the peo-
pie all the time. Every one now
recognizes that the requirement Of an
education does not consist OF GER
tain number of years spent in school
or college or of absorbing facts dur
ing stated period OF time that re-
late to certain specified subjects. The
requirement of an education Ia
closely correlated with the life &C
tivities of the individual and Of the
activities of his environment and is
independent of age, sex or the period
OF requirement.
Correspondence study is the agency
by which this gap in the schools may
be filled There always exists In ev-
cry community persons who through
conditions affecting their living or
their environment are unable TO avail
themselves of the privileges of the
public school system as II is at pres
ent organized. They may have had
limited opportunity to acquire that
standard Of learning that would do
them the greatest good, Such per-
sons may have both capacity and am
bition but not opportunity. IL is
such persons as these that the branch
of correspondence study In the
schools and colleges that are able to
present It. should most benefit IL
everyone who has had the opportu-
nifty of attending school could receive
the benefits through this means. no
doubt the efficiency of every commu-
nifty would be largely increased.
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