Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-13

get the students TO work hard enough,
/ one OF orr serious problems at
/ Throop Institute is to prevent the stu
dents from oYerwork IL is not place
/ for boys 10 play. but for men to work
/ in. The students work because they
! are interested, and their interest is
! due 10 the life-career motive They
/ have chosen calling, and every sub
/ ject means something to them is bear
| ing on their future career. Even
should they afterwards abandon that
career, their education will remain
with them as vital development, be-
cause it has been actually assimilated.
The motive of the life-career
should be impaired, whenever possible,
during the period of high school edu-
cation. II will transform a listless pu-
pill into a real student, diligent and
alert This address will be worth its
delivery should il lead some parent or
, high school teacher TO take UP the
problem of the listless pupil and sue
coed in imparting the invaluable mo-
tive of the chosen vocation 1t is not
essentially important that the voca-
ton should actually be followed, al
though of course the choice should be
absolutely sincere; the chief good
will come from the transformation ac-
complished through interest.
But historical facts reveal the &C
tual value of an early selection of one
future career. A stuoy of the biogra-
plies of famous men and women by
Lancaster shows that of those who at
tain signal eminence a large proper
ton begin preparation for the proper
calling at an early age. And why not?
Think of the time that is saved A boy
who begins at fifteen to prepare for a
given vocation will always have the
advantage of five years of concen-
trated preparation over the youth who
waits until twenty. Lancaster's figures
prove that of hundred musicians
ninety-five gave evidence of rare tai
emit before the age of sixteen. OF fifty
artists, the average age at which
marked success was attained was sew
enteen years; of hundred actors,
eighteen years; of fifty poets. eighteen
years; of a hundred scientists, eigh-
teen years; of hundred pioneers, sew
enteen years. So important is the
vocational guidance of youth that it
is being introduced. as it should be,
into our public school system; and the
Harvard University Summer School,
in a course of thirty lectures by -Mey-
er Bloomfield of the Boston Vocational
Bureau, next month, will deal with
this vital problem.
Il believe with Wordsworth that
The world is too much with us; late
and soon. getting and spending, we
lay waste our powers | yield to no
one in my respect for the pure science
that is not utilitarian; or in my adj
miration for the noble ministry of the
muses.. Goo pity the man to whom "a
primrose on rivers brim' is just
a primrose, nothing more; whereas to
others it gives thoughts that do often
lie too deep for tears To see earth
crammed with heaven. and every COM
mon bush afire with God'-this power
is boon priceless beyond sll compar-
ison. To hear Schumann-Heink, as
she stands among children in the win
ter sunshine singing. The Lord is
Mindful of His own and not be NOV
ed by til would not be in that mans
place for all the fortunes of Edison.
But / maintain that we have long
enough drawn a false and cruel diviG-
ing line between usefulness and cul-
ture, rs though all the finer things
of life were out of reach of the vul-
gar man with the hoe that 1t is not