The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-12-29
BOMB IS THROWN
NTQKAMERAMEHA
SCHOOLS system
Charles King Tells Alumni That
Prominent Educational lnsti-
tuition Is a Failure
GRADUATES TURNED 0Ui
UNABLE TO FACE WORLD
Speaker Says Blame For Low
Standard Rests. Solely Upon
incompetent Faculty


Charles King, former school inspec-
tor, threw a bomb into the recent
alumni gathering At the Kamehameha
schools, the echoes from which are
rnmbling yet around the classic halls
SIT Kalihi way. Mr.. King minced no
words about what he had to say, which
wns, In effect, that Kamehameha was
failing In its work and was turning
loose upon the community number OF
graduates unable 70 face the world be-
cnusc Of A lack. Of education.
Standard Must Ie Raised
ttWhat wished TO bring forcibly be-
fore the trustees and the teachers is
the necessity for raising the standard
Of Kamehalneha, said Mr.. King yes.
terday, when asked regarding his un-
usual speech Perhaps ! did not
choose exactly the right time and oe-
easion to make my views plain, but the
affair whs an hlumnSdinner, sort Of
family gathering, at which things Of
most Importance TO the family should
he discussed, and 4 know nothing more
important TO Kamehameha than to have
Brought to It's attention its complete
failure.
School Runs Below Capacity
ssI know from my experience that
the graduates Of Kamehameha are not
fitted us they should be to face the
work they are expected to do. They
cannot meet the competition of the
graduates from Punahou or from the
Mckinley High School, and this Is a
great pity, because Kamehameha is the
finishing school for the Hawaiians.
Ia. +. Judd, one Of the trustees, in
his address 20 the alumni, said that the
school was spending three hundred dol
lars "A year per pupil. / said, that the
pupils were not getting anything near
three hundred dollars worth OF iistfue-
tion. The school has q magnificent
plant and a large force, but il is rum
ming away below capacity. Its grad
yates are doomed to almost certain
failure in these days Of keen eompeti-
ton. fsHyR4t w.
Lays Blame Upon Faculty
- 1 lay the blaine to the fact that the
faculty, as a rule, does not take the
proper degree Of interest in the school,
It's purpose or its pupils. Too ofts
they attempt 10 teach what they do not
themselves know, and as a consequence
the pupils waste the formative years Of
theif lives, And this is lainentable.
IL the Anglo Saxon child, with its ad-
yantages Of heredity and environment,
must receive the training II does TO sue
oecd, how much more important is IL
that the Hawaiian child should receive
proper school training.
Graduates Not Rounded Out
MANY Kamehameha graduates can.
not rend understandiAgly, and they
have not the grounding in their man
ual training they should receive before
they are graduated. They cannot prop
erly understand the text books, the
technical magazines and the mathemat-
ical works it is necessary for them to
study in the carrying out practically Of
their manual training.
1.-THE graduates are turned out too
young, for one thing, and they are not
well trained az far as they 60, FOR an
other thing The standard must be
raised and the course must be length
ened, If the objects of the founder Of
the school are to be carried out.
Lack Men Behind Guns
eve have tried to impress this upon
the trustees before, bnt have never sue
oreded in convincing them. hope
that my plain talking before the alum
MI many of whom knew that l was
speaklng the truth, will have some good
effect.
"There Is a splendid equipment at
Kamehameha, but they lack the men
behind the gnns.,,