Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-04

4nd ready for the fired ambition Of
youth to improve Reading should be
done vO!umincusly by the child well
trained in language, and should be
ENCOURAGED with all the skill teach
, er can display. so that 1t will mt be
, the drudgery OF school books, but the
iov OF the race to catch up with an
cestry and then forge ahead.
Mathematics is nothing more than
applying language thinking TO length
time, mass and force, and making or
DERBY and expeditions our capacity for
graphing numbers and groups. IL
involves both writing and reading. and
then practice in consecutive symbols
and phrases, an exact language of re-
Iat:cnships which is the basis OF all
measurements and science. 1t is the
best of all the disciplines for training
the sense of order and uncompronis-
: ing truth.
Physical culture means active body
and mind. fresh air and moderation
in food. Judgment and knowledge in
personal hygiene, from which flows
an ever-increasing capacity for WORK
and happiness, as muscle. brain. bioo1
and nerve pulse together in splendid
harmony which is also growing, eVo!V-
ing. changing and budding-which. In
Tennyscn's words, Dungeons out OF all
within US that which not harms dis
t!nctive' womanhood and manhood.
These four great essentials OF char
acter, body training, writing, reading
and figuring-as basis for human hab-
it, no one can doubt are the elements
of thinking. Multiply technical sub
iects as we may, these underlie them
all, are apart from them all. and above
all things are external attributes OF
human evolution, both in Aristotles
day and in ours. Therefore. 1t Is that
insist on segregat'ng them as discl-
plines, to be administered collectively,
to be used by the pupil throughout
life, with freedom to change only as
controlled by the habits for which
they are responsible.
There has been so much talk OF
individual training" the genius OF
each boy and girl treated separately.
that the modern pedagogue will shud-
der when he hears me reiterate col
lective teaching Of children in gram
mar and high school grades. The rea-
son harp en- it is eminently practi-
cal one-economy demands it as the
best compromise Mr.. Ford has de-
veloped the greatest and most benefit
cent automobile enterprise in the
world by making only one model which
has not been changed for years-eV-
erything of excellent material, every
thing standardized. and everything in
large numbers with a resulting price
that provides large and larger num-
bers of people with facile Transports
tion every year. Now in teaching fun
damentals all Of our teachers are poor
because underpaid, some are better
than others, diversity Is fostered by
the hopeless struggle to give indiyid-
ual training. and with differences OF
teachers, differences of pupils, differ
ences of subjects chosen by the teach
ers, and, differences Of subjects cho
sen by the pupils, we are like an au.
tomobile factory trying to serve the
public with 144 different models of
cars-nothing is excellent, nothing is
standardized. everything is in small
numbers and the price is Ignorance
and degeneration instead of uplift.
Put cut a standard product in judg-
ment and habits and it will educate
itself and the community.
And here come back into the main
thread of this DISCOURSE standard
lied human product of the evolved
peoples college will educate itself and
the community, will govern by cleo
ton the professional schools, and will
use wisely its freedom to change at
maturity, so that you need have no
fear of backsliding, nor Of standing
still The present evil is the develop
ment of monstrosities in education,
like certain fossil shell-fish, which in
past time developed from age to age
spines, at first defensive, then orna-
mental, then bigger, and even OBJ
structiVe to the life and movement
of the animal, until the species was
killed off by competition with
forms more materially devel-
oped. The desire to experiment
in education ought never to have been
allowed to enter the years of child
hood where simple training of soul
and body was all that was needed.
Through the teachers, product Of the
changing school of life, there is bound
to creep in change aplenty in the Of
| ferings to children, without deIiber-
ately throwing open any door to the
childrens choice
On the other hand what a splendid
freedom is open to the young woman
or the. young man who energies from
the college of discipline. You of the
graduating class have before you the
glorious chance to answer one Ques-
ton: What is the essential happiness
Of the educated human soul?
Educational addresses ordinarily
say Maintain bright the armor OF
your forefathers" They harp on pre-
serving the past and preach the good
old days. The philosophy of change,
which from Darwin to Bergson has
swept over us and inyigorated the HUI
man soul in this goth century, recog-
nizes man as erring Recognizes right
and wrong as changing with our needs
Recognizes that an educational sys-