Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-06
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION FOR HAWAIps SCHOOLS
By SUPT. W. 7. POPE

departments,-a printing shop, black
smith shop, carpenter shop, culinary
department. Aside from the agricul-
tural training, they get opportunities
to learn many things in reference to
the carrying on Of large agricultural
farm. The Lahainalula institution,
being very old school, it's graduates
are numbered by the thousands, most
of whom have proven great credit to
their race and to their teachers and it
is to this school, along with others,
that We can look for great progress in
industrial training in the future.
Soon after the establishment of the
Lahainaluna school, the Hilo Boarding
School was founded, 1886. as an indus
trial school. Industrial training has
always been a prominent feature of
Lahainaluna Industrial School and
the Hilo Boarding School are practi-
cally of the same type and it is be-
lieyed that they are the best suited to
the needs of our growing youths in
the Islands, in that they include prac-
tically grammar school course of
study in connection with the industrial
training. In the past sixty years there
have been number of schools created
throughout the Hawaiian Islands,
many of which have offered a training
of an industrial nature. At the pres
ent time there are number of private
schools that are doing industrial work
Manual training has been included in
the course of study at Oahu College
for some time, and the Kamehameha
Schools, for Hawaiian girls and boys,
offer not only a good primary and
grammar-schhool education but also
thorough manual training course.
There are two Industrial Reforma-
tories at the present time under the
management of the Department of
Public Instruction. The Boys Re-
formatory at Waialee has long been
considered of much consequence and,
while the appropriations for the school
have not been large. for the great
numbers of boys assigned there, the in
stitution has done good work under
the circumstances. The new appro-
priation of $4,000 for maintenance
for this biennial period az we'll as $780,.
900 for new buildings has made it pos.
sible for q complete REORGANIZATION of
the work. not only making it possible
to improve the training along indus
trial lines but to reorganize the class,
room work; and aside from the active
part of the larger boys aiding in the.
construction of new buildings, they
get considerable training in agricul-
tural work, woodwork, ironwork, tai
loring. and other similar branches.
The Girls Industrial School Is also at.
tempting to give such training as will
be helpful in their life work after
leaving the institution.
While Industrial and manual train.
ing has been developed in the public
schools in most of the States, it has
also been making advancement in the
Territorial schools of Hawaii In the
rural schools. the teachers are en-
couraging industrial work as best they
can. Most of the reports show that
the teachers are training girls in sew
inging and washing and the boys in
woodwork and to some extent in gen.
eral agricultural work, In some places
their efforts have not been met with
encouragement, but in most respects
we can claim the support of not only
the parents of children but of the sui