The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-01-23

many VASES Occiueuly yes. DOino VI
tue answers are, believe, of especial
I Importance.
Ono writes, 'None Of the boys from
industrial schools come here. | believe
! that the system of giving smattering
Of several trades TO boys, instead Of
teaching one trade thoroughly, is not
founded on experience and is not com.
, men sense"
| "We do not see many here. A. had
one but he claimed to be carpenter,
blacksmith and painter rolled into one,
I and hc was not q success ] believe
an immense amount of money is thrown
away annually in these schools
Another writes, "We have long been
forced to view the system with appre.
hension as having decided tendency
TO unfit the youth of these Islands for
Industrial pursuits.''
HProvided that a boy has n good
common school education he cannot be-
Gin to work Mt trade too soon. A
strong. healthy boy can begin at IA
Ior Is years of age and by the time he
is 20 be competent mcdaniel
It All Depends.
"The average youth from an indus.
trial school is eighteen or nineteen
years of age when he graduates, and
then has only very limited knowledge
OF the trades which he took up while
at school. This knowledge is so very
limited and in most cases only covers
the rudiments of the different trades,
that if he decides to follow any one of
them up, (and he can only take one of
them) he has practically to learn it
all over again, whereas if he left school
at, say, fifteen or sixteen, and then be-
came apprenticed to d trade, he would
hae fair knowledge of it.n This re-.
ply is from one who, by education and
lexperience and love for the best inter-
ests of the people, is qualified to speak.
LII II came from common school. The
boys there were not educated away from
manual labor. They were made better
men for their country than the so-called
| educated youth here. If n boy is bright
I he will find the means after fifteen to
get to the front. Train the boys a year
at this and a year at that and give
them the idea that they know it all,
and they are a nuisance to the world
for the remainder of their lives. It
does look nowadays as if teachers
wanted to educate all and sundry for
the higher positions of life, forgetting
that the soil will not yield spontaneous.
~ the crop desired Perhaps if they
keep on pegging away they may get to
the stage where telepathy or hypno.
tism or some other issue will get in its
work on the soil bacteria and man need
only look on a lump of earth and ina.
,glne that the crop he desires will come,
and 10, it is there, but I have had to
work for what I have.n
Danger of Education.
One large employer, not a plantation
man, writes: " An ordinary boy with no
special intellectual capacity should, in
my OPINION, not be educated above what
reasonably would seem to be his future
Sonditlon in life. He should, however,
De given a chance in the direction for
winch he seems adapted. The majority
vi boys mere VIII, j believe, be better
Situated in life, if, after common
school education they could, at the age.
say, of fifteen, at once enter into req
ular apprenticeship and learn one trade
well instead of learning little of sew.
oral trades as they do now at the
schools, learning little of MANY things
i9nd, nothing well enough by which TO
make a. living"
Another, a man who at 6 years of ape
went to a school of mechanics where
he spent three years, saws that after
that he chad a small job for two wears
as an apprentice until he conld be adj.
united as journeyman in machine
shop where was paid something for
my work. In those two years | learned
about mechanical work practically all
that IN later life was of great advant-
age to me, and l can hardly remember
mat L learned anything in the trade
school which was of much practical
use to me, nor did the other young men
learn what was of practical use to
them. Things may, however, have
changed since my day.
Tells the Trouble.
Another prominent man writes: ~
learned trade myself after being ap-
prenticed at the age of fourteen and
L was instructor in an Industrial
school for three years. The trouble is
that the graduate of the Industrial
school thinks that he has thorough |
knowledge of several trades and when |
he finds that he is compelled to begin
again he is naturally disguised and |
gives up the idea of earning his living |
In that way. Good material utterly |
spoiled"
The fourth question was, Gin your
opinion is graduate of an industrial |
school at eighteen or nineteen, dis. |
Outraged when he finds that he has to |
begin at the beginning and learn a
tradef F."
Affirmative Replies.
Those who answer this question all
say, Yes" Many elaborate their
answer, all, however, opening with the
affirmative answer. Some answers are
iere given;
When boy stays at school till he
s IS or 10 he is more liable to drift
INTO store or clerical work than to take
% mechanical or agricultural labor.
The trouble is that most of the
graduates consider themselves com
,etent and when they are told that
hey must begin to learn they get dis
outraged" $50 far 1 have never
cen one who was willing to learn a
rade after graduating from one of
hese schools.o (This is written by an
merican a6ueatad In Auar;oan ,,,b1;o 6