The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-05
President GiInOre'S
Address at Commencement

on the sciences or PHILOSOPHERS tnaI
precede the activities of the inventor
and the possessor. One would not
belittle the achievements of prac-
teal men, but at the same time 1t is
well to remember that application of
knowledge or principles can never run
ahead of the knowledge TO be applied
The main product of education is
knowledge and it's by-products are
archaeological art including invention
and adaptation.
Scholarship Furnishes Leaders. |
Another and by far more important |
reason for the promotion of scholar
ship by the state is that such action
tends to furnish a class Of leaders
for the affairs and industries of the
state. In the last analysis any so
ciety or democracy depends for Its
perpetuation and influence upon the
few who mould public opinion and
the trend of industry. People always
have demanded and followed leaders
and it is because these leaders have
SO varied in character, abilities and
disposition that history is strewn
with noble victories as well as igno-
minious failures. 1t is well therefore
that the leaders of the state shall
be those who are trained in the spirit
of the states ideals and who by that
spirit are determined to give more
than a price-per-hour return for SER
vice to their commonwealth. A dem
ocratic society can be permanent sta
BILE and progressive only in so far as
it recognizes the necessity of educa-
tional facilities which will maintain
and improve it's material prosperity;
educational facilities which will train
men to uphold it's political, ethical
and intellectual ideals and to improve
upon them by pushing forward the
boundaries of knowledge by the dis
covery of new truth. The state must
train for it's leaders all who are cap
able of serving as such in any field
of human activity or thought.
The whole matter may be summed
up by saying that in society of DEM
ocratic ideals all subjects whereby
men and women earn an honorable
living and whereby knowledge and
happiness are increased are worthy
of a place in our institutions of learn
ing. 1t is further concluded that
every state should provide and equip
for it's citizens such institutions Of
learning as will enable its citizens
to exercise their propensities for
whatever form or grade of learning
they choose. Several states of the
, Union have already made commenda'
BILE progress in this direction. Nota,
BILE among these is Illinois which has
, provided at public expense a gradu'
ate school for sciences and arts in
connection with it's state university
, It is evident that this commonwealth
) considers higher education neces
sary adjunct to progress, prosperity
= and the continuance Of democratic
, ideals There is every reason to be
+ lieve that our own community, in the
f establishment of the College of Ha
= wall has now in the erection of this
{ new building laid the cornerstone o
e a larger and broader enterprise O.
g the complete education of its citizens
D Although this community is an inten
t sively practical one, yet it is not t.
S be supposed that it's citizens will no
= benefit by the type of education whicl
q the College is preparing to give.
e The Students Part.
s Not all the obligation for the goot
o results of higher education rests Of
r the state, however.
/ The student also has his part I,
Y play in the welfare of the state sur
ported institutions for higher educf
e ton. It is the object of the colleg
/ to produce men and women intellect
# ally we'll rounded of wide sympathie
J. and unfettered judgment. The grel
o factor in a college education tina
n counts for success in after life is tn
l. intangible ripening of the judgmer
o and sympathies that enables the graz
s. uate to take his or her place in tn
t. worlds affairs. While the student
r being trained to these things b
If ought also to be trained to hard an
p accurate thinking acquired by col
r tinuous application.
E. Thus far have spoken of the hig
If er realms of education that ought
p. be fostered in a democratic societ
N have yet to speak of breadth {
e. subjects or activities that ought
be recognized in our secondal
Id schools Our educational system hi
Of come down to us from a time whe
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