Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-06


OF education that will prepare the
youths of the country to best meet the
problems of life There are now many
methods OF instruction. many types OF
schools, each partaking Of plan most
suitable or that is supposed TO be most
suitable to the locality and type OF pu
pills with which they have to deal.
Generally speaking. we can say that
all of these schools are working for
the same great end in culture and
crafts. just as do the churches of the
many creeds. differing in their points
Of view yet aiming to accomplish the
same great achievement.
Industrial Education Is supposed TO
have entered our educational system
as branch of art. The first decisive
steps probably took place in Boston.
where drawing and practical demon
STATIONS in mechanics were first
made, along with the regular studies
of reading. spelling. writing and arith-
metic. The story Of the early develop
ment OF this kind or educational work
Is interesting. Progress was slow. but
gradually there were opened, here and
there throughout the Eastern States
private schools of various types, with
the public schools slowly venturing
into industrial training. 1t is claimed
that the few industrial training exhib-
its at the Centennial, held in Philadel-
phia in 1876, we're the first to attract
the attention of the great masses OF
citizens in America. Many leading ed.
ucators there took the inspiration and
very soon thereafter there grew into
existence schools of many types, vary
ing from fine-art museums to the rud-
est of workshops. OF recent years, the
public schools of America have shown
a very great amount of this Industrial
progress and we can justly be proud
of what We are prone to believe is the
finest public-school system as well as,
one that has great influence in the
developing of the most intense system
of industry in the world.
During the last 20 or 80 years trade
schools have been established in most
Of the cities and towns throughout the
United States. 1t is now a great sat.
isfaction to find many high-grade trade
schools, polytechnic high schools and
secondary schools Of agriculture being
established throughout the entire
country. There is probably no move
ment in education that has Of late re
ceived so much attention as this lat
ter-mentioned kind of school sec
ondary agricultural schools. III
In an investigation of any of these
schools we find that they are each or.
ganized to suit the needs of the COM
munity in which they are located and
of the pupils for whom they are Gre
ated. These country schools are,
strictly speaking. agricultural trade
schools and have for their sole object
the educating of the farmers boys
and girls who cannot or who do not |
wish to take up an extensive college
course but who are anxious to get
that from training which will be |
most useful to them when they take
charge of the home farm or farm
home. The school is made the educa.1
tional center of the community and
the farmers are free to call upon it for
assistance in any line of work pertain
ing to farming and home-making. Be-
ing of q trade-school type. these
schools do not prepare students for
State universities or for colleges of
agriculture.
In considering industrial schools and
their work in the country in general, |
we must not fail to mention what has
been going on all these years in Ha-
wall The early history of Industrial
work in the Hawaiian islands is as in
as that of any other part of
the country. From the 7ery first. ed
ucation held permanent place in the
work of the American Mission Doard
That organization made many attempts
to encourage among the Eatiyes the
arts and usages of civilized life. It!
sent out with the early missiona les
skilled teachers whose entire duty I'll
was to instruct the natives in aglicul
ture and the rudiments of mechanical
arts, such industries as carpentry. ma
sonry, shoemaking, tailoring and par
ticularly along agricultural lines.
While the ancient Hawaiians were
we'll informed in the agricultural pur
suits of the country, we find that the
pursuits were so limited that a great
many branches entirely new to them
had to be taken up in order to comply
with the requirements of the new civ.
ilization. The demands for industrial
training became so great that the mis-
sionaries found it necessary to estab.
lish industrial schools. The Lahaina-
luna Seminary, on Maui. was opened
in 1881 and while the object of this
institution was mainly for the training
of teachers and other helpers in the